Bill & Pookie wrote: > > You mentioned "lines per hour". I am interested > in how it is measured (design, coding, debugging, > testing?) and what the normal lines per hour are > for the industry. > There is a really excellent book on software costs "Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II" by Barry Boehm et al (C) 2000 Prentice-Hall ISBN: 0-13-026692-2 LC76.76.C73 S64 Barry Boehm has been refining Software development models for more than 20 years. COCOMO is a non-linear development model calibrated from a lot of carefully documented software projects that seems to work very well. Walter Banks -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics