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To: Eugene Goodman who wrote (21497)	11/17/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: rudedog	of 24154

Both Beavis and Chaz have written good comments on the use of 'lines of code' with some good advice thrown in. I also re-write code completely after a first prototype, since code patterns and data groupings are usually a lot more obvious after the initial design is pulled together, and usually the final version is a tenth or less the size of the original prototype, and much easier to maintain. There are several factual errors in your original post which I would like to comment on. I don't have exact insider knowledge on the NT5 effort, but I do have a pretty good idea of the overall size of the team and the rough composition. There are about 1700 people working on NT5 development in total, and only about 500 programmers. The ratio of programmers to testers is 1:2, and there are more than 100 people working in development management roles, mostly program management coordinating related projects. Compare this to the original NT development team, which originally had about 30 developers and had less than 100 people actually writing code at the end of the effort. Bigger is certainly not better in the coding business.

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