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From: Tov Are Jacobsen <tovj@stud.ntnu.no>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/22
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Michael J. Tobler wrote:
> 
> Leszek Sczaniecki wrote:
> >
> > We are about to start a big project, something about 250k lines of code.
> 
> R O T F L !!!!  I'm sorry for laughing soooooo hard, but
> how can you possibly know the LOC there is going to be?
> And you havent even picked an implementation language.
> 

That estimate is easy if you get payed by the LOC you produce:

accurate_LOC_estimate = desired_salary / payment_per_LOC


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