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echo: locuser
to: Brenton Vettoretti
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1997-04-11 10:46:58
subject: tv

BV>> Dunno. Some days, 10, others a few thousand, others none.
PE>> So you spent something like 3 years straight, working at your top rate,
PE>> to produce this application?

BV> No. I didn't say that I wrote every one of them. Although these are
BV> systems that have been developed over a few years and I have ended
BV> up the with the sole responsibility of looking after them. The
BV> largest APP I have written single-handed is about 1,500,000 lines
BV> and it was built over a period of six years.

That's 684 lines of code on average every single day, presumably part-time.
It took me (at a wild guess) something like 3+ man-months of work to write
Tobruk, which is 8000 lines of code, ie an average of 88 lines of code per
day.  In fact, I heard someone say that the industry standard was something
like 10 lines of code per day (or something equally small).

Am I lazy or am I stupid?  BFN.  Paul.

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