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.
Before continuing: How LONG is 'line of code'? With or without comments? Do you consider all line(s) with continuation marks as ONE line or seperate lines? What about embedded (recursive) calls to routines? Do you include/exclude blank lines? ;-D An existing program alone or this program with all the calls to subsequent services, functions, macros, recursive loops? Experience will shorten the time. Code complexity, excessive comments and language peculiarities will lengthen it. A new consultant will need to (re-)learn the program before even starting analyzing. etc, etc, ... Thus what ever figures you finnaly arrive, it is as meaningful as 'MIPS'. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
