RE: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-11 Thread Lindsay Marshall
+ 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. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt

Re: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-11 Thread Paola Kathuria
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?.

Re: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-11 Thread Richard O'Keefe
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