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Beg to differ on both points. Ignoring the 7 KLOC metric (which is fairly useless in estimating the project value for the customer), $5K at $100/h rate of a se
by abcd_f 16y ago
Beg to differ on both points.
Ignoring the 7 KLOC metric (which is fairly useless in estimating the project value for the customer), $5K at $100/h rate of a senior C programmer on a contract works out to about 6 working days, which is a reasonable timeframe for writing well optimized XML-RPC protocol parser. In other words it's neither a steal nor does it take two months to write.
(edit) YMMV by a programmer, but that's what it would've taken me to write it (though I have written a good deal of protocol parsers).
- jpr 16y ago1+KLOCs a day of C? WTF?
- abcd_f 16y agoIt does not need to be 1 KLOC/day :) The complexity of XML-RPC parser is about a week of work for polished code. Go from there, not from the given 7 KLOC of some implementation.
- rdouble 16y agoCompared to other languages, C is pretty straightforward. You also have to write more of it to do less. I switched back to C after 12 years of using web scripting languages, and am surprised at how much more code I churn out per day.
- z92 16y agoDo you now use C for web apps? Like parsing GET, POST, DB, Cookies?