From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!rtech!menace!dennism From: dennism@menace.rtech.COM (Dennis Moore) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rational ADA development environment Summary: Typical government bull Message-ID: <4722@rtech.rtech.com> Date: 10 Feb 90 20:10:31 GMT References: <405@wmt.UUCP> <595@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@rtech.rtech.com Reply-To: dennism@menace.UUCP (Dennis Moore) Organization: INGRES Corp. List-Id: ssawyers@cadfx.ccad.uiowa.edu (Steve Sawyers,212 ERF,,) writes: [stuff about Rational Environment deleted] >My personal estimate was that it saved 30-40% of the time usually >spent to do a project of this size (40,000 LOC and 2500 pages of >documentation). Isn't this typical for a government project?!? 40,000 LOC and 2,500 pages of documentation? Are you serious? 40,000 lines of code is 667 pages (at 60 lines per page). That's almost 4 pages of documentation per line of code, even if your LOC counter doesn't count blank lines or comments as lines. If ADA is such a wonderful, self-documenting, easy to code, easy to understand, easy to maintain language (as the government claims it is), then why are 2,500 pages of documentation necessary? -- Dennis Moore, my own opinions, blahblahblah