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