RE: Workplace issues

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

> 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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