[cortesoft]

If you are already good, productive professionals, than what is the point of counting lines of code at all?

If you are trying to use lines of code to measure productivity, the only reason is because you think some members of the team are not being productive. Sure, the good and productive team members won’t try to game the metrics… but the bad programmers, who you are trying to find, sure will.

The good programmers won’t game the system, but that doesn’t matter because they are going to be fine no matter how they are evaluated. So what is the point of measuring lines of code? You aren’t gaining any new information.