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Re: Project Proposal : Simulators for the MAYBE and the G-Machine

guy keren
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:38:29 -0700


On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Part of the reason I cannot estimate its time to completion is because I
> don't know how many developers are going to work on it.

assume only you work on it - make an estimation based on that - and try
to be realistic, and include design time, and coding, and debugging, and
bug fixing. then - triple the number (that's the usual factor i take when
i need to estimate how long it'll take me to do something i haven't done
before). give us the time in 'work days' units (net time).

> But I can tell you in advance that the MAYBE simulator will not take too
> much work.

could you please be more specific?

> And I believe we can split it into several steps, that each one
> would be a mini-project of its own. That way, we can take some time to
> procastinate with different projects.
>
> Would you agree to delay the final verdict until I rent the book and write
> a more detailed description of the MAYBE's internals, as well as a
> specification of the simulator's code, as I can plan it in advance?

there's never a final verdict. eventually, if someone wants to do
something - they just do it, not letting other people tell them its no
good. so go ahead and make a specification. i assume it'll take a while -
and meanwhile we could either wait, or start another small thing. there's
no rush - MAYBE will still be there for us ;)

--
guy

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