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echo: locuser
to: Paul Edwards
from: Brenton Vettoretti
date: 1997-04-17 09:23:08
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
PE>> rate, 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.

PE> That's 684 lines of code on average every single day, presumably
PE> part-time. It took me (at a wild guess) something like 3+ man-months
PE> of work to write Tobruk, which is 8000 lines of code, ie an average
PE> of 88 lines of code per day.

Well. What can I say.

PE> In fact, I heard someone say that the industry standard was something
PE> like 10 lines of code per day (or something equally small).

PE> Am I lazy or am I stupid?

Dunno. Perhaps both :)

Brenton
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