Re: It's about time!

From: srt@pbm.com

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <7c032q$egj$1@news.uni-paderborn.de>, "Enno Rehling"
<rehling@usa.net> wrote:
> That's because they are programmers. They are used to having a specification
> of what they should write. The problem writing a PBM is to find that spec. I
> could rewrite Olympia in under a month, I guess...

500 LOC an hour for a month?  I'd like to see that.  Hell, I'd like to see you
unit and system test 76k of code in a month.

Your point that a design is half the problem is true, but I think you
underestimate the complexity of code and test.	If you look at the
industry-wide figures, programmers average 150 LOC/month when you include the
design and unit test phases (i.e., after the requirements phase).  In
object-oriented developments, somewhat more than half that time is spent in
design.  So even if you eliminate the design step (and I don't think that
having a specification is the same as having a design), you're lucky to
average 500 LOC a month, much less an hour!

I have leveraged off of existing code to write a small PBEM in a month -- in
the sense that I complete the rough pass at the code in that time.  But even
so, the development time stretched considerably when you include test and
refinement.

-- Scott T.

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References

Re: It's about time!
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Sun, 07 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: It's about time!
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: It's about time!
"Enno Rehling" <rehling@usa.net>
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000