Thank you that is quite useful reading, yet it does not give any help in finding a good "unified" measurement on LOC counts, as 
sub road{ return "Right." : return "" if (shift eq "On which side of t
+he road should people drive?" ) }

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does the same as 
sub road
{
  my $question = 5;
  my $answer = ""; 
  if ( $question eq "n which side of the road should people drive?" )
  {
    $answer = "right";
  }
  retrun $answer;
}

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Counting the Lines it is 1 vs 10, counting the semi-colons would even be 0 vs 4. Yet the second line is much more readable. Are there any suggestion what to actually count, and how to value it. I would use this to try and get a better method to estimate my own time required for extended jobs. It becomes difficult for me to estimate a project that would take a months, but If I could analyze better how much code for example reading a specific xml file requires, or a complex sorting algorithm, I could look back at my "lines" required for it and estimate the required time.

Cheers,
PerlingTheUK

In reply to Re^2: Code Statements/Lines per Function Point by PerlingTheUK
in thread Code Statements/Lines per Function Point by PerlingTheUK

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