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From: ryer@inmet.inmet.com
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Subject: Re: ada-c++ productivity
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Date: 20 Mar 91 14:03:00 GMT
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In this recap of the LOC/day issue, I think one point has gone unmentioned:

   LOC/day measured in DOD projects is *deliverable*, *product* lines per
   day.  Prototypes, things that had to be re-written, testcases, tools
   built to help produce the ultimate product, etc., don't count in the
   delivered code, but the labor that goes into them does count in the
   total person-days.  The size of this non-product and/or non-deliverable code 
   can be large in comparison the the deliverable product.

Mike Ryer
Intermetrics