Test of mailing list; Lisp-to-C conversion line conversion

[Mabry Tyson <TYSON@ai.sri.com>]

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We are going to be a subcontractor on a proposal with another company.  The
prime contractor will be converting our Common-Lisp code to C.  Their pricing
to the client will be based on the number of C lines they expect to "write".

Does anyone have any empirical data on lines of Lisp to lines of C  (yes, I
know it is *extremely* variable -- eg, whether we need a GC)?   Also, does
anyone have any data on the relative cost of those lines compared to lines
of C written from scratch?

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