Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

Productivity and reliability depend on the length of a program’s text, independent of language level used. | Albert Endres, H. Dieter Rombach, A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering: Empirical Observations, Laws and Theories (2003), ISBN 0321154207, p. 72 | The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.