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- From: nic@uk.co.gec-mrc (Nick Chapman)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: In search of a Killer Demo! (SE)
- Message-ID: <2221@stalin>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:45:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.072944.8211@tetrasoft.com>
- Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK
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- Joseph R. Grace (JGrace@TetraSoft.com) wrote:
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- [Discussion of how to sell OO to managers etc.]
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- > I chose a task which amounted to a
- > straightforward enhancement of existing code --- which happened to be very
- > apropos since I had just had to make the change! I showed how making the
- > change was error prone and time-consuming (2 (lucky) - 8+ (unlucky) hours) in C
- > and relatively safe and fast (15-30 minutes) in C++.
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- Is this really true?
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- I assume the existing code was in C as you chose this language to do
- your comparison with. You say it would take between 4x and 24x more
- time to enhance the code using C than it would take to enhance the
- code using C++.
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- Did you measure this, or are you just guessing?
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- > Joe Grace <JGrace@TetraSoft.com> (NeXTMail preferred.)
- > TetraSoft International Business and Personal Productivity Tools for NeXTSTEP
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- Nick.
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