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"If one person today can do the work of 5 people from days gone by, that in itself ameliorates the problem." Does anyone here actually believe that to be true?
by jsvaughan 18y ago
"If one person today can do the work of 5 people from days gone by, that in itself ameliorates the problem."
Does anyone here actually believe that to be true?
- marvin 18y agoMaybe not by a factor of five, but at least by a factor of two. Assuming you're not using C++.
- ajross 18y agoHave you every written assembly language on punch cards? That was, in fact, the toolchain in use for OS/360. No editor: you either write them and hand them to a typist or punch them manually. Even simple typos and syntax errors don't come back for half an hour or more. So yeah, a factor of five for a typical programmer sounds about right to me. Truly great hackers might get closer (because they aren't as limited by tool overhead), but a typical IT wonk would be utterly lost in that environment and do much worse.