> 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

