Re: Pricing Advice Needed
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:51:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Pricing Advice Needed | ||
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On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:44, Alva Chew wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, what about charging by line of code? how does
> that apply?
Don't.
Lines of code are a terrible measurement. Good programmers often write
code that has more functionality, is more maintainable *and* is much
smaller than the code of "newbies".
Furthermore it's bad for you - you don't spend a constant amount of
effort per source line. Some parts are easy while others take much time.
And some areas of work (database setup, site structure planning etc)
produce zero lines of code.
--
Christian Reiniger
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