[Here, Jim>http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3256379312] productivity in Smalltalk and he brings up # lines of code for different languages.

I'm going to dispute those numbers given for Smalltalk. 21 lines of code per function point? No thanks! Here's some real statistics from a real application that does real stuff:

Packages: 34, Classes: 343, Extended Classes: 109, Average lines of code per method: 3.6

Yes, that's 3.6 lines of code per method on average!

There's another trend that jumps out here. One quarter of the 'classes' in this application are classes from other applications! One quarter of the classes in this application have tweaked, extended and reused code from other systems in a way that cannot be done in your regular curly braces languages.