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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/18
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   >Because the number of lines of code per day per programmer is
   >fairly constant regardless of language.  Using high-level languages
   >allows programmer to  produce more software in a given period.



This often-quoted statistic is misleading, it evaluates production time,
but does not take into account life-cycle maintenance costs. If you
take these costs into account, productivity, even measured in lines/day
is much lower for assembly language programs.

Also if you take into account reusability, which also affecets long term
productivity, assembler looks even worse.