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   Janis Papanagnou to David Brown   
   Re: New and improved version of cdecl   
   31 Oct 25 09:31:29   
   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 30.10.2025 23:01, David Brown wrote:   
   > On 30/10/2025 18:49, bart wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >   
   > If I were developing a compiler, I would not advertise any kind of   
   > lines-per-second value.  It is a totally useless metric -   
      
   It's good enough for marketing.   
      
   > as useless as measuring developer performance on the lines of code   
   > he/she writes per day.   
      
   Which sadly had been done (maybe still?) by the less enlightened   
   instances of management.   
      
   Janis   
      
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