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

[Michael Williams]

Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net>
> 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? :-(
>
> I'm putting the final touches on my master's thesis comparing Python 
> and
> C++ solutions to a set of problems, so this information would be *very*
> helpful to me.

http://www.ipd.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf might 
be useful, although I don't think it's the study you're referring to. 
It's an "An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx", 
and concludes programs written in scripting languages are shorter 
(IIRC).

-- 
Michael