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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future
Date: 1999/02/09
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In article <79ojjt$en1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> of time has been spent reinventing the wheel. Just remember
> that typical software productivity is of the order of 10-20
> lines/day, and you are unlikely to be at the high end of
> this range when writing general purpose reusable libraries,
> where the design is often very difficult.
>
> I would be very suspicious of anyone making the claim that
> Ted did that "oh we can rewrite it ourselves easily".

Not quite. I said "easier", not "easily".

If it takes four weeks to get procurement to OK it, then by the above I could
write about 200 to 400 lines in that amount of time. If I'm looking to use the
Booch components, but all I *really* need is a simple queue targetted to one
specific purpose, it may well come in under 40 LOC.

I'm *not* saying that's the way to go. And I'm not saying "I never reuse code
because of this", so please don't try to cast me in that light. I'm just
pointing out the situation developers in large companies often find themselves
in.

T.E.D.

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