RE: Workplace issues

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

No, they had keystroke counters too!

:-D

Scott

At 7:59 PM -0700 7/22/08, Lauren wrote:
>  > 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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