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From: lcw@halley.UUCP (Larry Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Cost of Embedded Software
Message-ID: <929@halley.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 19:43:46 GMT
References: <30.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP>
Reply-To: lcw@halley.UUCP (Larry Wolfe)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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In article <30.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes:
>...  They write in
>HAL and the code they cut costs about $3,000 per line.  That's about
>100 times the cost of run-of-the-mill code and IMHO worth every penny.
>
>							Cheers, Scott
>

Well Scott,

IMHO, your HO would be more valuable if I could escape the notion that
there is no upper bound on what you think would be "worth every penny".
Unless there is a point at which you would think that some cost per line,
even for the space program, is ridiculous or at least a bad investment,
then it hardly matters in what language or system it is created.  It is
by your definition, good.

Perhaps I misunderstand.  If so, I stand corrected.

Larry Wolfe

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