On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:21:27 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Robert Fake wrote: >>More specifically, I'm looking at this from a maintenance perspective. If I >>give a programmer an existing program to modify, how long on average will it >>take, per line of code, to analyze the program to then be able to then make >>necessary changes. > reasons for variation snipped.... > >Thus what ever figures you finnaly arrive, it is as meaningful as 'MIPS'.
Much less, I think. Analyzing and understanding code is not linear. Understanding a 500 line program will usually take much more than ten times as long as a 50 line program. At least that's my experience. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
