Back in the 80s, we operated under the premise that a seasoned programmer should be able to produce 20 lines of bug-free assembler code per day.
However, it is vital to note that this is addressing code development, not code revision. The problem in development this type of performance metric is that you must have different metrics for code development vs. code revision and a separate set of metrics for each programming language. In addition, the performance metrics used for application code are vastly different from the performance metrics used for systems code. There is an entire field of study regarding performance metrics when developing and revising code. It is one of the most different tasks that management has to address. John P Baker Software Engineer HFD Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
