Timeline for How many lines of code one needs to write to be able to write a paper?
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| Oct 30, 2013 at 1:57 | answer | added | Aurelius | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 25, 2013 at 9:35 | comment | added | Johntra Volta | Here's one more in line with most of the comments here: "The quality of a movie is not determined by a number of minutes it lasts." Yes, but somehow they all end up being around 90 min. except some being 3h long, and some more than 5h (Novecento-Bernardo Bertolucci). | |
| Oct 25, 2013 at 9:22 | comment | added | Johntra Volta | @AlexE No one is trying to do this. What Bill Gates is saying, as I understand it, is that as in aircraft industry where people try to make airplanes more lightweight, programmers try to find a way to express themselves more effectively, so the length of the code should not be used to measure productivity. | |
| Oct 25, 2013 at 8:42 | comment | added | AlexE | I'd like to add a Bill Gates quote to Aron Ahmadia's comment: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” | |
| Oct 25, 2013 at 6:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciComp/status/393627668857757696 | ||
| Oct 25, 2013 at 5:57 | comment | added | Johntra Volta | Computational science is specific because even before starting to write a paper you need to write some code, and since most people want to minimize the effort. I think this is the right place to ask this question because only computational scientists can give an answer since the question is about his research practice. | |
| Oct 25, 2013 at 3:43 | answer | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 24, 2013 at 23:47 | comment | added | Aron Ahmadia | This might actually be a better fit for academia.stackexchange.com than here. I think that the number of lines of code is a false metric, the same as measuring the number of words in the paper. You can certainly do a fit between the average number of lines of code and several published papers in various disciplines, but I doubt it will give you any insight into the literature, just the same as if you had counted pictures or words. | |
| Oct 24, 2013 at 22:38 | history | asked | Johntra Volta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |