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From: "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>
Subject: Re: STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?)
Date: 2000/05/09
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Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Pascal Obry wrote:
> > I second that. Another way to put it : I do not care for the health of
> > the writer fingers :)
> >
> > What is important is readability and  maintenability (maintenance is where
> > 70% of the sofware cost is spent).
> 
> 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot :-)
> 
> I've heard similar statistics before, but I wonder how the cost estimation
> is done, and if it is biased towards certain kinds of software.
> 
That number is going to vary dramatically depending on the problem
domain. Lots of software is never maintained at all. I've heard that
Micro$oft doesn't generally maintain many applications. They write them
once, put them on the shelf, then plan on rewriting them with a whole
bunch of new features. (Obviously, this varies depending on the
product.)

MDC

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