Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +--------------- | Having the reference implementation is the only thing that makes this | conceivably doable in a summer. What you are missing is something I have | often also gotten wrong: the core, cool functionality always comes easy | in the proof-of-concept stage. We make these ridiculous extrapolations | from that to a shipped product and come in five times over budget. +---------------
Or as Fred Brooks said it in "The Mythical Man-Month" [paraphrased], if a program takes one unit of effort, a programming *system* takes three units of effort, and a programming systems *product* takes nine units of effort. -Rob ----- Rob Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 627 26th Avenue <URL:http://rpw3.org/> San Mateo, CA 94403 (650)572-2607 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
