Re: Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler?

[Adrian Hoe <mailbox@*nospam*adrianhoe.com>]

AG wrote:

> "Mike" <spamnotme@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1865cca835f2ccee98991a@News.CIS.DFN.DE...
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've read somewhere that to make an Ada95 compliant compiler, 50 years-man
>>
> of
> 
>>work are generally considered what is necessary.
>>
>>How is this huge quantity of development time justified? Perhaps required
>>
> for
> 
>>the standard library?
>>
> 
> I'll bite this time ;) Do you really consider 50 man-years a *lot* for a
> compiler?
> Let's see ... that equals 25 people for 2 years ... Hmmm, including all the
> overhead
> and what not. Of course that must include QA too. Not to mention some
> regular
> operational overhead and the chance/risk of failure which you would also
> have
> to provide for (in man-years, that is, since someone would need to handle
> that).
> 
> 
> 

or 50 people for a year... or 100 people for 0.5 years? That's 
mystical man-year... :-)

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