I've worked with the function point methods for some time and I don't think MV BASIC has been mapped. You could check with Dave Garmus, who is a central figure in FP (Google him, he comes up near the front).
In order to do it you need to run some statistics against a number of carefully selected projects that have application function point counts and their source code. That hopefully will average out all the implementation variations. The other thing to do is try to interpolate using existing, measured langauges. Indeed it might be fair to say MV BASIC is more COBOL-like in productivity than traditional Dartmouth BASIC. Both have known LOC/FP ratios. A more careful assessment of where our BASIC lies relative to other languages would probably come up with a reasonably close ratio value. Lee On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bob Dubery wrote: > Hi all, > > IBM initiated a metric called "Function Points" that attempts to provide a > means for measuring programming tools by the amount of code that has to be > written in order to produce a program of a certain complexity. > > There have been several studies by which programming languages have been > ranked in terms of lines of code (LOC) per function point (FP) > > Smalltalk, for example, is reckoned to have a ratio of 20 LOC per FP. Java > and C++ come in around the 50 mark. > > Is anybody aware of studies that have applied this kind of scoring to the > BASIC used in MV databases, or any other study that seeks to rank > programming languages in terms of programmer producivity and that includes > MV BASIC? > > Thanks > > Bob > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Lee J. Leitner, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leitner.org/~leitnerl The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. -- Jacob Bronowski V.13.0 ------------------------------------------------------- -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
