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

[Jeffrey Elkner]

Thanks a 10**6 to everyone who replied!  Jeremy found the quote I was
looking for and Guido sent it my way (what a community! ;-)

jeff elkner
yorktown high school
arlington, va

btw.  I'll put whatever I come up with on my website so anyone
interested can check it out.


On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 11:15, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Here's a source for your quote.
> 
> PL/I As a Tool for System Programming
> by F. J. Corbat
> http://home.nycap.rr.com/pflass/plisprg.htm
> 
>     It's our experience that regardless of whether one is dealing with
>     assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines
>     of source code per day is about the same!
> 
> I think Fred Brooks says something similar in The Mythical Man Month.
> 
> Jeremy