[Lazarus] programmer / project statistics

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> I read recently a section in the "Test-Driven Development" book by Kent Beck 
> that JUnit and whatever his development environment was tracks programming 
> statistics.
>
> Examples being:
>  * amount of code changes (lines changed)
>  * amount of compiles
>  * time between compiles
>  etc...
>
> Has anybody thought of maybe writing some IDE add-on for Lazarus regarding 
> programming statistics?
>
> I'm just curious really. I can't imagine how many times per day I run my unit 
> tests or how many times I press Ctrl+F9 to compile my project. All I can say 
> is that it is a LOT. :-)
>
> PS:
>  Anybody know if you get a "key press" counter for Linux? I remember years 
> ago you used to get a "mouse distance" counter, telling you how many 
> kilometers you moved the mouse per day etc..  My key presses must probably be 
> tens of thousands per day, if not more. My poor keyboard!

I would think that 'poor fingers' is more appropriate. 
RSI is a common ail for programmers...

Michael.