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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?)
Date: 2000/05/08
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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