From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-10 13:16:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping References: Message-ID: From: Ed Falis Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera7.23/Linux M2 build 518 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:16:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.31.41 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1081628216 141.154.31.41 (Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:16:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:16:56 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6955 Date: 2004-04-10T20:16:56+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:06:33 GMT, wrote: >> 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. So, that means the employer can pay each Ada guy ten times as much as each C guy, and still cut his cost in half, right?