Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:47:41 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code layout and debugging time Message-ID: <xzpznmgevia.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <ehadehc2qo.deh@localhost.localdomain> (swear@attbi.com's message of "22 Apr 2003 20:27:27 -0700") References: <5.0.2.1.1.20030422171035.01c5e258@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20030422205617.0387b378@popserver.sfu.ca> <ehadehc2qo.deh@localhost.localdomain>
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swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > I think the whole scheme was a response to a DOD requirement for using a > PDL to specify the detailed design -- a "product" for one of the big > steps of the waterfall software development process. I think the was > something like one line of code per hour. The "industry average" (whatever that means) is 8-20 lines of correct code per day, according to McConnell - and those who would dismiss him simply because he is a Microsoft employee are close-minded bigots. Read the book and judge it by its merits and flaws, rather than proclaim it irrelevant on the basis of the name on the cover. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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