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From: wjb@hplb.hpl.hp.com (William Blench)
Subject: Re: metrics, again
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William D. Gooch (goochb@swim5.eng.sematech.org) wrote:
: On Wed, 2 Nov 1994, William Blench wrote:

: > It's odd that everybody who reads this group will attest to the productivity
: > and ease of maintenance brought about by Smalltalk, but getting real numbers
: > is almost impossible. I cannot stress the importance of these facts to the
: > real world of commercial application development. 

: As someone who has been doing commercial application development in 
: Smalltalk for some time, I can only laugh at this.

: >  Any help would be greatly
: > appreciated and I will post a summary here.

: Since you didn't ask any specific questions, I'm not quite sure what 
: you're looking for.  "Real numbers?"

Hi William, thanks for replying. I was trying to find references to resource
estimating a Smalltalk project, to find out if it different to (say) a
Cobol project; also measures of complexity in ST or OO in general. Lastly
I was after any research work done on productivity. I am trying to help
UK customers moving to Smalltalk by providing them with this information;
the frustration that came through in my original post was to do with the
difficulty in locating this stuff and also the general attitude in some parts
of the c/s or o-o community that 'all this management stuff' is no longer
relevant. I am glad to see people who still take it seriously.

my best regards

Will
