I recall studies that claimed 10 LoC per day - that is, debugged, documented, production, finished code. The odd thing was that it was 10 LoC whether it was as

I recall studies that claimed 10 LoC per day - that is, debugged, documented, production, finished code. The odd thing was that it was 10 LoC whether it was assembly or high-level languages - because you could do more in 10 lines of a high level language, it is actually more productive. Not really surprising, I guess; that's the point of good abstractions.