On 31/10/06 06:24 +0000, Indrajit Gupta wrote: <snip> > All said and done, I get a lot more out of my two-and-a-half people > in the UK than out of a very large number in Chennai. I'd rather hire > one good German programmer than hire 30 bad programmers at 1/30 the > cost each.
Cue reference to The Mythical Man Month. A good programmer is 10 times as productive as an average one. Nationality doesn't matter. Also, 10 average programmers can't replace one good one because you have the overhead of interperson communication (55 distinct pairs). Devdas Bhagat
