Hi, Paul.

PE> BV>> Dunno. Some days, 10, others a few thousand, others none.
PE> PE>> So you spent something like 3 years straight, working at your top
PE> rate,
PE> PE>> to produce this application?

PE> BV> No. I didn't say that I wrote every one of them. Although these are
PE> BV> systems that have been developed over a few years and I have ended
PE> BV> up the with the sole responsibility of looking after them. The
PE> BV> largest APP I have written single-handed is about 1,500,000 lines
PE> BV> and it was built over a period of six years.

PE> That's 684 lines of code on average every single day, presumably part-time.
PE> It took me (at a wild guess) something like 3+ man-months of work to write
PE> Tobruk, which is 8000 lines of code, ie an average of 88 lines of code per
PE> day.  In fact, I heard someone say that the industry standard was something
PE> like 10 lines of code per day (or something equally small).

That was a number (for *debugged* lines of code) that we used to see
quoted back in my days as a programmer. But that was COBOL. Well, I
think they said it applied to most languages and the advantage of HLLs
was that those 10 lines achieved more of what the user wanted than 10
lines in say ASM or C.

PE> Am I lazy or am I stupid?  BFN.  Paul.

ROFL!

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Hmmm, I wonder why this seenby appeared here.

Regards, fIM.

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