[tpyo]

Who was that guy who suggested using lines written plus lines deleted. Was it Knuth?

[ynniv]

A line deleted is worth 2 written.

[cousin_it]

All numeric metrics of programmer productivity are easily gamed, but yours is particularly so: just add and delete one line repeatedly.

[eru]

That's true, when you use the metric to influence some material gain or loss for the developer. As an indicator for the state of a project (and its speed) together with other metrics, it may not be too bad.

[daniel-cussen]

Holy shit, I just thought of this yesterday after making great progress by deleting code.