* Re: Justifying Development tools [not found] ` <7aa64c$m32$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> @ 1999-02-15 0:00 ` Pat Rogers 1999-03-06 0:00 ` Corey Ashford 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Pat Rogers @ 1999-02-15 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Donald Gillies wrote in message <7aa64c$m32$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>... >>In article <36c85659.0@news.pacifier.com>, "Steve Doiel" >><nospam_steved@pacifier.com> wrote: > >>> If you're really interested in things like the cost of errors and the cost >>> after shipment, >>> read the paper by Stephen F. Zeigler, Ph.D. comparing the cost of Ada and C >>> development >>> >>> http://www.rational.com/sitewide/support/whitepapers/dynamic.jtmpl?doc _key=337 > >IMHO, this article is spam science. > >You don't run a retroactive experiment with 7 variables and then try >to correct for each variable independently, using ad-hoc ideas. A >good experiment has a "design" with just one or two variables and all >other things are held constant. > >A good experiment is designed using something called "statistics" >which seems completely unfathomable to the average software >engineering computer scientist. In particular, without looking at >confidence intervals and many indepedent trials (does this guy >understand what is the meaning of "independent trials" ???), you are >doing nothing but promoting heresay, and we have enough newspapermen >in the country doing this already... What experiment are you referring to? My recollection is that the author makes conclusions based upon historical data. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Justifying Development tools 1999-02-15 0:00 ` Justifying Development tools Pat Rogers @ 1999-03-06 0:00 ` Corey Ashford 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Corey Ashford @ 1999-03-06 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Pat Rogers wrote: > > Donald Gillies wrote in message <7aa64c$m32$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>... > >>In article <36c85659.0@news.pacifier.com>, "Steve Doiel" > >><nospam_steved@pacifier.com> wrote: > > > >>> If you're really interested in things like the cost of errors and > the cost > >>> after shipment, > >>> read the paper by Stephen F. Zeigler, Ph.D. comparing the cost of > Ada and C > >>> development > >>> > >>> > http://www.rational.com/sitewide/support/whitepapers/dynamic.jtmpl?doc > _key=337 > > [snip] Just as a side note, the link shown above is outdated. Here's a current one: http://www.rational.com/sitewide/support/whitepapers/dynamic.jtmpl?doc_key=337&borschtid=36402077701901701421 - Corey ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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