Re: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_Can=27t_live_without=85?=

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AAsk  <AA2e72E@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"the project is normally finished 20 times (or more) faster (elapsed
>time)"
>
>How do you define "finished"? Does it take 20 times less to write the
>specification, to test the application, to write the user manual, to
>deploy the training programme etc.? My guess is that all these
>activities take the same length of time irrespective of what language
>the application is written in.

If they're done.

I count the time from when the user says "I need a system that does
<whatever>" to the time when he's using it and not complaining too
much.

The "specification", such as it is, is written after the user rejects
the first version (or accepts it but wants some changes).

Seth