On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Brown <danbr...@php.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:59, Larry Martell <la...@software-horizons.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I just pulled out my notes from that job - it took me 59 hours to do
>> the conversion and remove the gotos and recursion, and another 67
>> hours for testing, verification, integration, documentation, and
>> certification.
>
>    And, having contracted with the federal government quite a bit
> myself, 180 days for implementation, followed by 25 years of
> upgrade-less utilization, then three years of deprecation and
> near-replication, ending with an abandoned, government-grade,
> bug-infested duplication, at the low-low cost of just $230 Million to
> the nation.

This was a job for a private company, and my code is in many aircraft
flying in the sky right now.

But I once did do a job for a company that was under contract to one
of the branches of the military, and we did spend $100s of millions of
the tax payers money to build a really cool inertial reference unit -
unfortunately, we only built one, and then they didn't want it any
more. I think I produced more power point slides then I did lines of
code :-(

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