Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Message-ID: <4365@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 01:37:55 GMT
References: <6341@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <60859@sun.uucp> <474@m3.mfci.UUCP> <37014@linus.UUCP> <2948@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2948@utastro.UUCP> nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>In article <37014@linus.UUCP>, munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
>> If I've got two years and five people to write a system that takes
>> 100,000 lines of Ada [...]

>Our models of what constitutes a program are clearly very different.  Given
>two years and five people to write 100,000 lines of Ada, I'd find some other
>profession.  I'm astounded that it can be done at all, and I would *never*
>propose it be written in assembler.

	How about 8-10 months, 4 people, and 40-50,000 lines of Ada?
It can be done, I've seen it (it was even a government contract).  And that
was while supporting the prototype written in a couple of months in C by
2 people.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup