The time it takes to get things done in software is based on what the
software language abstracts versus what the person is trying to express.
For example, if I have a tool that can automatically display information
from a relational database, and the only thing I want to express is
displaying
+ in all seriousness, who cares what naïve people think about anything?
Quite often they are controlling the purse strings. (though who has a purse
with strings these days? Surely it at least has a zip)
L.
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John Domingue wrote:
I would like to convey to a non-computer scientist
audience the significant effort that goes into software production in
order to motivate software and component re-use. Otherwise a naive
person may ask why not just create the software you need on demand
every time?.
On 11/05/2011, at 10:25 PM, Paola Kathuria wrote:
2) is a call to an existing function re-use?
I've been the PHP developer for the-racehorse.com since 2006 and
have produced over 30,000 lines of code. However, I'm calling
some functions written earlier in new code? Is that counted as
John and Paola, thanks for your comments. I understand that there are
many variables. I would like to convey to a non-computer scientist
audience the significant effort that goes into software production in
order to motivate software and component re-use. Otherwise a naive
person may ask
John Domingue wrote:
I'm looking for pointers to how much time and cost is associated with
producing software code.
I am somewhat flumoxed by this question. What kind of an answer were
you expecting?
The time to produce code can depend on:
- what one is trying to build
- what it's built from
