How many lines have you ever written in a day?

[Poincare]

Exactly what the title says. Post here! The maximum I've done (in a day) is probably 470 lines of code.

[Mario F.]

I don't think I ever counted.

But I once had 6 bugs in just 1 line.

[laserlight]

I think a teacher once made me write 350 lines of something as punishment. No other teacher had such old fashioned ideas though

Anyway, I too never counted, and it depends on whether you count edits to existing lines of code.

[Yarin]

Exactly what the title says. Post here! The maximum I've done (in a day) is probably 470 lines of code.

Those probably weren't the most qualitative lines ever made either.

[VirtualAce]

I've never counted. I've written about 3 or 4 DLLs in one day and each had about 500 to 1000 lines in them. However, that isn't saying much after you factor in skipped lines, comments, etc.

[User Name:]

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

[novacain]

When I get paid by the line (and not the hour/day) I will start to take notice of the amount of lines I write.

I have spent nearly 2 months looking for a bug, which required just moving two lines to fix.

[whiteflags]

I think a teacher once made me write 350 lines of something as punishment. No other teacher had such old fashioned ideas though

And I learned my parents are old fashioned from this thread...

[Salem]

How can you compare the copy/paste of say GUI boilerplate code with say the implementation of quicksort?

[johnggold]

If you program regularly, you will always be cutting and pasting from bits that are almost the same as you want new.

On that basis, 470 lines seems very small, so perhaps you should add a constraint on cutting and pasting.

Also style.

Being a dinosaur I use lots of lines, big tabs

main()
{
/*
Bit of text
*/

if( test )
        {
          // Indent again
        }
else
        {
          // More code
         }
}

You can use up lots of lines this way. How about defining by actual code - excluding brackets, comments?

[brewbuck]

In a normal session where I'm not interrupted (i.e. I'm working from home ) I usually do about 1500. At the max, maybe 3000.

EDIT: I need to add that that's only when I get the wonderful opportunity to write new code. As anybody can tell you, your day-to-day kind of coding is mostly maintenance and not like that.

[Dino]

I regularly write 1000 a day in assembler for recreates,

[EVOEx]

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

"Measuring truthfulness of a fact by a quote of Bill Gates is like measuring an aircraft's weight with a ruler." - Me


That said, I never measured it either. I think about 2k max, though I am one of the lucky few who rarely had to do such brain-numbing work that it took no thought at all. Because if you actually have to think about what you code, the number goes down quite a lot (in fact, I've spent several days without writing a single line of code, thinking of algorithms).

[BobMcGee123]

1/100000000th of a line because everything I've ever written is on a single line