COCOMO - appropriate for languages like Python?

[Andrae Muys]

"James J. Besemer" <jb at cascade-sys.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1026198259.4647.python-list at python.org>...
> From a management standpoint, your strategy should be to always strive to hire
> the very best people and to break projects into moderate sized, easily handled
> chunks.
> 
> From a schedule estimation standpoint, LOC (however you choose to count them)
> appears to be a pretty good estimator to use for a fixed staff and fixed project
> sizes.  How the prediction varies as you change staff or project sizes is
> something you'll have to measure or guess at yourself.  At least COCOMO research
> gives you some idea how the curves are shaped.
> 

Do you have any references where I could follow up on this myself?

Andrae