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From: cpc@camcon.co.uk (Chris Cracknell)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re^2: software engineers
Message-ID: <2932@titan.camcon.co.uk>
Date: 26 May 89 08:46:02 GMT
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raveling@venera.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:

>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.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>	Actually, the numbers I thought were generally accepted were
>	20% - 50% of project time for debugging.
                     ^^^^^^^
I believe both of these figures are correct.   Project time includes far more 
    time than that spent by the programmers on it.

Just my tuppenny-worth

Chris Cracknell