>>>http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/15/slacker.idg/
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>>Having both American and non-American experience, I would say that the article is totally stupid. It's enough to read this line "Using a standard measure of IT productivity based on the number of lines of code developed by a programmer per year,..." to get it.
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>Aye up! My company sent a project to on of those India shops... It came back with over 4,000 bugs in it.
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>But... THERE WERE ALOT OF LINES OF CODE!!!
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>I would rather write less lines of better code than alot of crap!
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>BOb

The whole concept of application is to put inside more brains and less typing, unless some guys stay around and count number of lines :-).