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From: Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: recap so far
Keywords: productivity, code size, estimation, metrics
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Date: 21 Jul 90 19:10:09 GMT
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In article <141@srchtec.UUCP> johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin) writes:
>Sure, software can't be estimated with <exact> accuracy, nor can it be
>measured so.  That doesn't make it worthless to pursue software metrics
>with higher accuracy and precision than we have now.

Agreed; except that many people still think if you have digits of
precision, that those digits are necessarily meaningful.  A garbage
number is worse than a very imprecise one *because* it is misleading.
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