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Subject: lisp productivity question - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 25-Nov-83 22:47:27 EST
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smu!leff    Nov 24 17:38:00 1983

Is anybody aware of study's on productivity studies for lisp. 

1. Can lisp programmers program in lisp at the same number of
   lines per day,week,month as in 'regular' languages like pascal, pl/1, etc.

2. Has anybody tried to write a fairly large program that normally would
   be done in lisp in a regular language and compared the number of lines
   ratio.

In APL, a letter to Comm. ACM reported that APL programs took one fifth
the number of lines as equivalent programs in regular language and took
about twice as long per line to debug.  Thus APL improved the productivity
to get a function done by about a factor of two.  I am curious if anything
similar has been done for lisp.