IME 95% of the time SLOC approximates code complexity just fine. Just because you can write horrendous 'clever' one liners in perl does not mean that most code

IME 95% of the time SLOC approximates code complexity just fine. Just because you can write horrendous 'clever' one liners in perl does not mean that most code out in the wild is like that. I certainly don't think the same author writing the same app in two different languages will be writing like that. Zero mention was made of bugs caught or customer-noticeable speed improvements so I'm inclined to think that there was actually no benefit to having static typing.