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From: matt@mozartasd.contel.com (Matthew S. Granger)
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Subject: Re: ada-c++ productivity
Keywords: Looking for a few lazy men
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.082554.24964@europa.asd.contel.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 13:25:53 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.224626.27077@aero.org> <1991Mar16.000624.2513@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar16.205228.4268@grebyn.com> <1991Mar17.142756.25676@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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In article <1991Mar17.142756.25676@ecst.csuchico.edu>, rreid@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ralph Reid III) writes:
|> 
|> I don't know where these companies are digging up these kind of
|> unproductive machine operators (I hesitate to call them real
|> programmers), but they would never get through the computer science
|> program here at Chico State.  It kind of makes me wonder what schools
|> they came from, if they even have degrees.  The kind of productivity
|> discussed in this article sounds like the level I might expect from
|> beginning programming students at a junior college.  I would like to
|> know what in this world could reduce a serious programmer's
|> productivity to these levels.
|> 

Ralph, Ralph, Ralph

You are missing the point. We unproductive machine operators could spit out
hundreds of lines of code a day if all we had to worry about was our grade 
point average. When producing a million line Command and Control System or maybethe life critical software for the avionics of airliner there is more going
on than just writing code. Documentation, Design meetings, Documentation, more
Design meetings, Documentation, code writing, code walk throughs, unit testing,
more testing, integration testing ad nauseam......

And then your company gets gobbled up by a monolithic coporation.
-- 
Matt Granger 		    
Contel Federal Systems      (I guess that's GTE now)
Chantilly, VA 22301	    

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