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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: bugs in assembler vs. C
Message-ID: <860@ellie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 09:33:54 EST
Article-I.D.: ellie.860
Posted: Thu Mar  6 09:33:54 1986
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Summary: reconsideration of bug rate

In article <832@ellie.UUCP>, colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> > On point B:, studies have shown that the number of errors or changes is
> > exponentially related to the number of lines of code.  One study indicates
> > that the average is one error per 1000 lines.
> 
> You don't mean "exponentially," do you?  (Though it applies to _some_
> programmers I know....)
> -- Col. G. L. Sicherman

What do you know about it?  Considering the amount of implosive inter-
connectedness of a large program, the bug rate probably _is_ exponential.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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