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Re: Re: Productivity and Perl

by hsmyers (Canon)
on Jun 01, 2002 at 22:32 UTC ( [id://170944]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Productivity and Perl
in thread Productivity and Perl

To be fair to Paul, here is a bit more of the context:

Code size is important, because the time it takes to write a program depends mostly on its length. If your program would be three times as long in another language, it will take three times as long to write-- and you can't get around this by hiring more people, because beyond a certain size new hires are actually a net lose. Fred Brooks described this phenomenon in his famous book The Mythical Man-Month, and everything I've seen has tended to confirm what he said
So which credibility are you doubting, Paul's or Fred's?

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