Except your only example was nonsensical on the face of it. > Yep, even if I made it my life's mission to run a formal study on programmer productivity (which

Except your only example was nonsensical on the face of it. > Yep, even if I made it my life's mission to run a formal study on programmer productivity (which I clearly won't) that wouldn't save the argument from nitpicking. I didn't ask for this, I just asked for sensible examples, either from your experience or from publicly available information.