On Tuesday 10 November 2009, [email protected] wrote: > The speed gain is done using the graphical interface builder (Gorm.app), > and by the greatly slim designed API, which allows you to achive all you > want with much less code: > > Quote of the Booz-Allen Study > > * took 100+ senior programmers and trained them on NeXTstep, then > asked them to write the same app on both NeXT and their previous system. > * First application written was written two to five times faster. > * Savings were 90 % > * 83 % less lines of code in the NEXTstep version > * 82 % said NeXTstep was better in ALL categories > * It isn't faster to code on NeXTstep; you just have to write less of > it. The revolution is "getting rid of software".
When was this study done? Openstep/GNUstep/Cocoa are certainly a good framework by todays standards, but I really doubt that a GNUstep application will have 83% less lines of code compared to, say, one written in Qt or with .Net or Scala with Scala/JFC class libraries. Actually GNUstep is missing lots of things that e.g. Qt offers, therefore you will probably write more code for complex application. Michael _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
