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- From: kim@Software.Mitel.COM (Kim Letkeman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: BP 7.0 upgrade and ProtoGen
- Message-ID: <KIM.92Nov19084744@kim.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:47:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.014430.11610@tous.oau.org> <75259@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In-reply-to: gtd543a@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 18 Nov 92 15:23:01 GMT
-
- In article <75259@hydra.gatech.EDU> gtd543a@prism.gatech.EDU (death) writes:
-
- | As a side note, I am writing my own CASE tool, to be released to the
- | public domain, with source code (in BP7) for everyone to study any
- | modify.
- |
- | If a 18-year-old self-taught Pascal programmer can do this (I'm
- | already most of the way though the initial stage in the program),
- | why can't a team of trained, competent workers do the same?
-
- I would suggest that before you attack ProtoView's team, you get your
- own product to the same level of functionality, quality and
- reliability.
-
- If you haven't experienced the 90-10 rule yet, (that is, to really
- finish a project to a professional level, the last 10% of the work
- takes 90% of the time) then you are in for quite a surprise.
-
- Good luck with it, but don't be surprised if it takes longer than you
- think now to consistently match Protogen's abilities, much less exceed
- them.
- --
- Kim Letkeman kim@Software.Mitel.COM
-