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From: raveling@venera.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software engineers
Message-ID: <8336@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 01:19:54 GMT
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In article <4625@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>From article <854@odyssey.ATT.COM>, by gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman):
>
>> Real programmers spend 90% of their time debugging.
>
>
>Gack!! The mind boggles.

	It sure does!  It's much easier to just not go to the effort
	of putting bugs into programs in the first place.

	Actually, the numbers I thought were generally accepted were
	20% - 50% of project time for debugging.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@isi.edu



	P.S.:

	If this seems a bit stale, or you're at ISI and it's a duplicate,
	that's because our newsfeed went read-only for a week or two.
	This is a repost of something that I believe didn't get out.