Thank you. This sounds so trivial at first, but your reductio ad absurdum at the beginning of your comment really nails it. Throw into the mix the fact that pr

Thank you. This sounds so trivial at first, but your reductio ad absurdum at the beginning of your comment really nails it. Throw into the mix the fact that productivity is hard to measure as soon as more than one person works on something and that doesn't even begin to consider the economical aspects of software. And even when ignoring this point, there's that pesky short-term vs long-term thing. Also, how do you define the term "productivity"? I was assuming that you mean somethint along the lines of (indirect, if employed) monetary output.