A better metric than lines of code
gdp: I believe compressed source code size is one of the metrics available on the "Computer Language Benchmark Game":http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/I feel relatively strongly that LoC is almost entirely worthless as a metric.  Even compressed source code size makes me uneasy.  Shameless self promotion:  I wrote a blog post which appeared on HN just the other day about better ways of comparing programming languages.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=766841In short, I disagree that there is almost any relationship between mental effort and verbosity.