Re: Rational ADA development environment

[jclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Jeff Clark)]

In article <4722@rtech.rtech.com> dennism@menace.rtech.COM (Dennis Moore) writes:

>   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?

Hmmmm...  When the users of *your* software systems need to learn how to
effectively make use of your products do you usually respond "Let them read
the source code..."?  Wasn't somebody famous once beheaded for an attitude
like this? :-)

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