Talk:Source lines of code

When discussing the comparison of quality of code produced by different programmers, the term "productivity" is used where another term, e.g. "efficiency", may be more appropriate. This assumes that the definition of "productivity" skews towards quantity, i.e. to be more productive simply means to produce more output, whereas the context skews towards efficiency, quality or some analogue which suggests the concept of "doing more with less". Then again, the discussion actually considers two aspects: two different code artifacts written to do the same task, and the different qualities of the respective programmers who produce the code artifacts. What is a good term to describe a worker who is good at producing higher quality products or tools? More specifically, what is a word for the measure of said ability? "Productive" is not a good word for that measure.

Perhaps the distinctions between using SLOC to estimate software complexity, the measure of software quality in general, and the measure of programmer capability should be made more explicit.