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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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>Scenario:  Two 100,000 SLOC collections.
>One in Ada, with (hope, hope) 1 error per 100 SLOC
>One in C, with 10 per 100 SLOC
>
>(No flames, these are just wild numbers for the
>sake of illustration)
>
>Assume an Ada programmer can find and fix a bug
>in a day, while the C guy takes two.
>
>There are a hundred C hackers and 5 Ada hackers.
>
>OK, our hypothetical numbers made the Ada guys
>much more productive _individually_.  But the
>C folks as a total have us far beat.
  So the 5 Ada guys have to fix 1,000 bugs at 1/day/guy, for a total
of 1000/5=200 days.
  The 100 C guys fix at .5 bugs/day, so they do 50/day total, and
they have 10,000 to fix, for 10000/50= 200 days.
  Looks like that race ends in a tie.