> 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.

No way to predict.

It all depends on whether the author (or the last person to maintain
it) was stark raving mad!

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