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I'd struggle to think in a job which required 25 lines an hour ever, let alone constantly for 8 hours/day!

I don't think I've ever written more than a few hundred LOC in a week.




What kind of projects do you work on? I'm sure the experience differs a lot between people working on important, complex legacy projects, and people developing consumer mobile apps for photo sharing etc.


For me working on complex legacy projects means even less LoC since you're so afraid of breaking stuff.


Exactly, that was my point. If you're starting a simple consumer product you'll write lots of code quickly. When working on something complex you need to consider how your changes will effect every aspect of the product.


Exactly. When I was working on a payroll system it could take a day to change a modify a few lines and test all the various scenarios before releasing. The cost of making a mistake was large.




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