I'm just trying to do some crude budgeting. Does anyone know of a figure to use to estimate the cost of developing an application program in a language such as Vb or Java based on the number of lines of code? My calc just need to include the prgrammer's salary and some minor overhead. Are such metrics ever used and are they accurate? (I have no idea if it's supposed to be $1/line, $10/line, $100/line.)

Just curiou$...