On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:

> Maybe that's changed today.  I remember seeing a figure of 11 debugged
> lines of code per day per programmer as the average for a GSA programmer
> back in the 1980s.

I remeber that statistic from my youth, too.  What kind of code?  Fortran?
APL?  Cobol?  Assember?  C?

Okay, here are eleven lines of C code:

        #include <stdio.h>

        main()
        {
                int i;

                for(i = 0; i < 5; i++)
                {
                        fprintf(stderr, "%d. Hello world\n", i);
                }
        }

That is hardly the language for this kind of statistic.

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