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Leif Holmgren wrote:

> Has anyone ever tried to measure the important programming language 
> speed aspects? What I mean is
> - Time to implement a complex algo by an average programmer, including 
> bug-fixing.

There is one natural environment for such tests: programming 
competition. For example at topcoder (www.topcoder.com) you can see some 
statistics (average coding time, best coding time, correct programs 
percentage etc.) for several languages used in these competitions. 
Unfortunately, the languages are only C++, C#, java and Visual Basic.

> - Time for an average programmer to understand the code written for a 
> complex algorithm?

At TopCoder there is a "challenge phase", when you can look into other 
contestants' programs, look for bugs, and prepare a test case to prove 
the program is incorrect.
There is also a "system test phase" to catch the bugs not found by 
contestants.