From: "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler?
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:17:56 -0800
Date: 2002-12-15T14:17:56-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJQK9.4358$Q11.75217@news.xtra.co.nz> (raw)
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"Mike" <spamnotme@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1865cca835f2ccee98991a@News.CIS.DFN.DE...
>
> Hello,
>
> I've read somewhere that to make an Ada95 compliant compiler, 50 years-man
of
> work are generally considered what is necessary.
>
> How is this huge quantity of development time justified? Perhaps required
for
> the standard library?
I'll bite this time ;) Do you really consider 50 man-years a *lot* for a
compiler?
Let's see ... that equals 25 people for 2 years ... Hmmm, including all the
overhead
and what not. Of course that must include QA too. Not to mention some
regular
operational overhead and the chance/risk of failure which you would also
have
to provide for (in man-years, that is, since someone would need to handle
that).
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2002-12-14 22:47 Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler? Mike
2002-12-15 22:17 ` AG [this message]
2002-12-16 14:50 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-12-16 3:23 ` steve_H
2002-12-16 12:46 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-12-21 18:54 ` faust
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