>Hilmar
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>I once worked for a company who, would you believe, calculated productivity by the number of lines of code written! We all know that succinctly written code can be far more productive than some idiot's rambling, monolithic, stream-of-conciousness, inefficient code.
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>Just bored at the moment!
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>Terry

You would be surprised at how often non-technical decision makers are convinced of just the opposite by this. In conjunction with other factors of course. And an experienced technical person knows how to use this to get budget requests approved. Seen it happen all the time.