Re: You Are In A Groundhog Day Scenario

"Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:51:53 +0200, Matthias Warkus
> <Warkus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>No. What you need is the highest-level language and APIs possible, in
>>order to have as few lines of code as possible do as much as possible.
>>Programmer productivity in lines per day remains about the same whatever
>>the language. Ever read "The Mythical-Man Month"?
>
> It depends on how much programmers are creating new programs, and how
> much they are maintaining old programs.
>
> And analysis of needs doesn't care about how many lines of code are to
> be written.
>
> Code writing is the easiest part of programmers'  jobs.

What languages, besides APL, throw all those lines per day guesstimates
right out the window?  It can take days to write or understand one line.