On Thu, 5 Jan 1995, FAlden wrote:
 
> Recently, a client measured the cost of a programming job in dollars per
> line of code. I was stumped by this, especially when I thought about the
> density (i.e., wordiness, or brevity) of different languages. When I throw
> in Image and V/Plus intrinsics, recycled code segments, etc., comparisons
> based on the number of lines of code seem tenuous at best. I began to
> wonder how all of you measure programmer productivity and evaluate program
> cost.
>
> This is a blatant request for help to produce new approach to pricing my
> programming services. Anyone who would like to help, but who believes this
> [snip]
 
Weeelllll, whenever I'm tasked with a contract job, my code looks like:
 
for
(
i
=
1
;
i
<
10
;
i++
)
 
Gee, there's what? $1200?  Might be profitable to write a post-processor
to tokenize into lines!
 
Craig "Yes, I'm bored" Fransen