From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: String_Holder ?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:18:55 -0700
Date: 2011-12-22T23:18:55-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jd16gf$1eqs$1@adenine.netfront.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jd0lcj$3ei$1@munin.nbi.dk>
On 12/22/2011 06:26 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Back when I was starting out, there were widely quoted studies that claimed
> that programmer productivity was about 100 lines per day, no matter what
> language, tools, or targets were involved.
Not sure where you got that. The figure I encountered, averaged over the entire
development effort from initial requirements to acceptance testing, was one line
of code per person hour. By that measure, 50 unnecessary lines cost 6.25 person
days of effort.
--
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like giving an AK-47 to a monk, shooting him
full of crack and letting him loose in a mall and
expecting him to balance your checking account
'when he has the time.'"
Drew Olbrich
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-18 12:34 String_Holder ? Natasha Kerensikova
2011-12-18 16:48 ` Brad Moore
2011-12-18 20:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-12-18 23:08 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-12-19 12:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-19 11:12 ` Martin
2011-12-19 23:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-22 9:08 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-12-22 10:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-22 12:23 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-23 1:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-23 6:18 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2011-12-22 11:40 ` AdaMagica
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