Re: Help Wanted: Full Time 4D Programmer

Sujit Shah writes:

> >Tell me who's paying that and what for and I'll re-train! I can easily write
> >20 lines of code where two would do the job :0

>Well this is a true story. It is a large consulting company. I know a
>few project managers there. After the software project is complete
>they will estimate the cost on the number of lines of code and actual
>development time taken. Interestingly they say it provides a very good
>estimate..

This is, of course, because of the fact that in any well run software development project, actually writing the code is very small fraction of the effort required to complete the project. Writing the code is just the tip of the iceberg in an SDLC. Terse languages would result in a higher cost per line, so you probably couldn't get $1,000/line out of inherently verbose 4D code.

Tom Benedict
Free & Clear, Inc



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