[Merrill]

I know one person who works remotely in transcribing and one in editing. They have specific numbers to meet in terms of lines and pages. In fact the transcriber is paid by quantity.

[noarchy]

We're getting perilously close to seeing software developers reduced to those kinds of measurements again. People stuck working in "Agile" shops are putting up with "velocity" metrics. And with the spread of GitPrime, for instance, they're even seeing lines of code per day used as part of their metrics; something that used to be considered a relic of the past.

[jve]

Probably works for them. But don't measure code like that.

Bill Gates: Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight

And then, how do you measure someone refactoring code and ending up with -1kLOC?

Or someone thinking hard for a few days to come up with an elegant algorithm?