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You start a project knowing how many LOC it will take? I want to assume you’re being sarcastic but it really doesn’t sound like it

• drekipus 3y ago
  It's responding to the analogy.
• 9659 3y ago
  not knowing exactly, but with an estimate of the software size. sure. how else do you reliably estimate the projects cost and schedule. "engineering" not "programming"
  • heyoni 3y ago
    Difficulty of the problem you’re trying to solve. Just like it could take 5 hours to come up with 5 lines of code, it could also take 5 minutes to produce another 5 lines. All depends on how complicated the task is.
    • 9659 3y ago
      yep. and when you need to write 300K SLOC, the average takes care of the outliers.
  • conductr 3y ago
    Interesting. I can estimate time by gauging complexity but LOC (for me) is usually not exactly correlated to time or complexity