Re: 3vl 2vl and NULL

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> >
> > IBM U2 (IBM's Pick products) suggest significant annual growth, but I
> > don't know if it is from "the outside" or from ports from other Pick
> > products.
>
> Pollies answer follows - "I can neither confirm or deny".

Does that mean you are IBM?

> HEY! Isn't
> that a real world case of 3VL?

Yes and quite an unsatisfying answer, indeed.

> > And I probably write a lot because as one of my mentors said (who a
> > decade later become my employee) "You sure do type fast, but girls do.
> > That's why they make good secretaries." (He was explaining why I wrote
> > code faster than he did.) Cheers! --dawn
>
> All true - but my measure is the same as Brooks et al - that is working
> (or debugged) lines! ;-)

Lines of code? You would really measure lines of code? Sometimes fewer lines yields much better code. What if you have 600 tables instead of 7000 lines of code (or whatever that mantra has been)?

I haven't read Brooks in a while and don't recall what he said about lines of code (I loved his MMM book and even bought the revised version too a few years ago, even though I have never put in a single man-month in my career).

I much prefer measuring debugged features completed with regression test cases developed compared to required features for a defined phase of a project. Even if some features are big and some are small, this measure combined with % complete estimates works for me.

Cheers! --dawn Received on Thu Dec 08 2005 - 04:11:06 CET