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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14948)	12/16/1997 4:08:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>Who says Microsoft programmers aren't productive? There we have it, first it was 27 meg, then briefly down to 26, now up to 30.<<< Who knows what this means? I did some analysis of ms coding figures once and came up with 2 lines of code per day. 700 lines per day is clearly absurd. However, remember that a lot of the drivers and so on come from OEMs supporting their boards and what-not. Also, the core code for Excel, word, etc is now installed on your box in the form of DLLs whether you want it or not, to enable OLE (oops, I meant Active-X!). So what they are calling part of the OS may have been written by the Word team, for all I know. Then again, this may be lines of machine or assembly, in the actual OS. In a case like that, one line of C++ code could generate 40 lines of machine code, so maybe that's the way to interpret it. 15 lines of C++ a day sound more like it. Any MS folks out there (ones that code for MS, I mean) want to interpret these figures for us? Anybody have the relevant comparison for a flavor of Unix? Chaz