Just remembered. The same company wouldn't buy me a decent word processor - WordStar for instance (back then -pre-MS Word, there was IBM's DW4), for a lousy 100 bucks or so. Their reason - "The 'Working Party' (don't you just hate that misnomen!) haven't yet decided which is to be the 'Corporate' choice of WP". Meanwhile I had a whole bunch of documents to write. I had to produde the tables of contents and indexes manually - the extra time taken cost far in excess of the cost of a stand-by/throw-away WP. Corporate mentality!

>>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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>Yeah, that is one of the reasons that many here consider this a fruitless pursuit.
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>However, you may want to measure another thing, with this kind of program: how many lines of code can you manage to take away from a program, without losing its functionality. (Well, this might be dangerous, as well.)