From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-08-27T13:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] My book is out -- Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

On Saturday 26 August 2006 10:17 pm, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> On 8/26/06, Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
> > More pages doesn't necessarily mean more value.
>
> Exactly. While it's well known that one can, for example, measure the
> productivity of a programmer by the number of lines of codes that he
> generates per hour, one cannot similarly measure the quality of a book
> by its page count.

I'm not even sure you can measure a programmer by lines of code per night. 
Think of how many lines a person could consume doing this the wrong way:

class Foo
	attr_accessor :my_instance_var
end

SteveT

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