When IBM Paid Programmers Per Line of Code, IBM Programmers

question 57

Multiple Choice

When IBM paid programmers per line of code, IBM programmers produced:

• A) small amounts of low-quality code.
• B) small amounts of high-quality code.
• C) large amounts of low-quality code.
• D) large amounts of high-quality code.

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