From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn .edu!milli!knelson@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Kenneth Nelson)
Subject: Re: annual "crap-for-brains software" posting
Date: 13 May 93 02:58:18 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6y2yL.B6t@news.cis.umn.edu> (raw)
In article <C6x541.IxH@crdnns.crd.ge.com> groleau@e7sa.crd.ge.com (Wes Groleau
X7574) writes:
>In article <9305111124.AA08521@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU writes
:
>>So, the bottom line is that software that works well enough to
>>defend our country costs ten times as much as software that works
>>well enough for office work. That's the way it is.
>
>Correction:
>
>So, the bottom line is that software that works well enough to
>defend our country costs ten times as much as software that works
>almost well enough for office work. That's the way it is.
Right. The last 10% of the effort to go from "almost" working to
working is 90% of the work. Also, today's miltary software will still
be in the field long after dozens of MS products come and go.
Ken
P.S. Survey says: 4 of 5 dead soldiers/airmen/sailors prefer working
software to "almost" working software. :-)
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