Hi Hilmar --

LOC was developed originally to measure productivity for COBOL programmers.

Function Point Analysis, developed by later Capers Jones, has separate metrics for application code, forms, reports, algorithms, etc. Although it doesn't have the simplicity of the LOC measure, proponents say that it provides a more accurate estimation tool for development.

Jones has an extensive bibliography.

Below is a conversation which he participated in on his book "Estimating Software Costs"

http://www.highq.be/quality/estimat.htm

Enjoy!

Jay

>>Hi!
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>>Just kidding: you can post this as an example of scanning all files in the project and do something with them dependent on the type < g >
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>Yes, to account for the database and tables is important. I had quite forgotten about that. (BTW, thanks to Walter Meester and his RI-generator (TaxRI), my RI-code now takes less than 1/10 of what it used to take... but of course, that didn't make the time invested, in planning the tables and relations, any less!)
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>I will include the database and free tables as you suggest, and publish a first version in a few days.
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>For forms, the code created with the object browser is sort of reasonable, but I am still worried about the menus and reports being terribly inflated.
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>Hilmar.