hardcopy/productivity inverse correlation

David H. Thornley thornley at cs.umn.edu
Sat Nov 17 03:17:33 AEST 1990


In article <U3=6YL3 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I think it's more a matter of the quantity of code listing is inversely
>proportional to the quality of the *code*, not the programmer. I find I
>tend to make listings, as a maintanance programmer, only when I'm working
>on really evil stuff.
>
And may I suggest an inverse relation to the quality of the display
and editor?  A 16-line single-window terminal with a brain-damaged
editor is a lot harder to use without listings than this large-screen
X system I'm using right now.

DHT



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