RE: Workplace issues

Subject: RE: Workplace issues
From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:59:46 -0700

> From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net

> I remember an apocryphal story about why Microsoft produced such
> buggy, bloated code. The reason, according to the story is that each
> software engineer was expected to write x number lines of code a day,
> every day.
>
> So they did, regardless of whether that code was valid, could
> compile, or actually did anything.

Couldn't the programmers just copy and paste to increase their lines of
code?

Gee. Thanks, Micro$crewy.

Lauren


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