COCOMO - appropriate for languages like Python?

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: James J. Besemer [mailto:jb at cascade-sys.com]
> 
> To my mind, this is simply saying the average cost per new 
> LOC is rather high in these circumstances and also the 
> standard deviation also is high.  IIRC, COCOMO has a way to 
> take this into account.

How does it deal with negative LOC? There are many cases where I consider
myself much more productive if I can *reduce* the code base.

Tim Delaney