[Edu-sig] Lines of code and programmer time...

Herb Schilling Herbert.W.Schilling@nasa.gov
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:55:28 -0400


>On 16 Apr 2003 22:06:49 -0400, Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I seem to remember hearing a few times about a study somewhere that said
>>that programmers produce about the same number of lines of code in a
>>given amount of time regardless of the language.  Does anyone know
>>anything about this study? (or is it a figment of my imagination? :-(
>>

Hi,

  Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.theadvisors.com/langcomparison.htm
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Herb Schilling
NASA Glenn Research Center
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