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From: atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or
 Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/23
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In article <01bb8ded$c55ea3a0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com> writes:
>I think Brooks' point is to measure relative programmer
>productivity in the same language, not different languages.  What
>is it the average programmer produces; like, 100 lines/month
>of fully debugged code or some low number?  Obviously, it's
>not the amount of typing that influences productivity.

Almost, however, it has been found that the the  number of lines
produced by the same programmer is somewhat language independant.
I.e. the same guy will write 100 lines of assembler in about the
same time as he writes a hundred lines of Fortran
>
>In fact, let's *dramatically* increase productivity and move
>to APL!  Heck, I remember a friend of mine wrote a "moon rocket
>lander" game in 1 line of APL on a dare.  A very *long* line,
>mind you...

APL is an exception to the line count rules.  Someone else once obsered
that for most languages you measure size in terms of lines.  For APL
you measure it in square inches.