From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?)
Date: 2000/05/08
Date: 2000-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005080941230.24665-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8f5u58$3lu$1@wanadoo.fr
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Pascal Obry wrote:
> I second that. Another way to put it : I do not care for the health of
> the writer fingers :)
>
> What is important is readability and maintenability (maintenance is where
> 70% of the sofware cost is spent).
87% of all statistics are made up on the spot :-)
I've heard similar statistics before, but I wonder how the cost estimation
is done, and if it is biased towards certain kinds of software.
-- Brian
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2000-05-05 0:00 ` The Next Microsoft? Ray Blaak
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Mark Atwood
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ayende Rahien
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Mark Atwood
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-05-07 0:00 ` STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?) Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-09 0:00 ` STL, Ada, C++ Harry Erwin
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?) Marin D. Condic
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` The Next Microsoft? Jon S Anthony
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Bobby D. Bryant
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