> I'm not positive but I think that there have been studies that show that a programmer's output in LOC per day is fairly constant no matter what the language i

> I'm not positive but I think that there have been studies that show that a programmer's output in LOC per day is fairly constant no matter what the language is. That may be true, I have no idea. But the point would be that you can do so much more with some languages than you can with others. To make an extreme example compare writing a factorial function with Haskell and assembler.