Re: Maple Vs Mathematica debugging / cost to write a system

carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Programmer productivity can span many orders or magnitude.
My own metrics in terms of  *usable* codelines/year (which
I used before moving to academia in the mid 80s):

   Class A - superprogrammers         10^4-10^5
   Class B - competent                10^3-10^4
   Class C - average                  10^2-10^3
   Class F - hopeless                    0

This is for code of standard-to-moderate difficulty.  For truly
challenging tasks, say a real-time fault-tolerant multiplexer
in assembly, divide by 10.  For easy stuff, such as
numerical software,  multiply by 10.


I'm really puzzled by your classification of numerical software.
I would have put it in the truly challenging category!?

-- David
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