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I pasted a subset of the Fil-C source code into your tool and it says 6 person years. I just pasted the compiler pass and the obvious parts of the runtime. Not
by pizlonator 9mo ago
I pasted a subset of the Fil-C source code into your tool and it says 6 person years. I just pasted the compiler pass and the obvious parts of the runtime.
Note that I started the project in Nov 2023 and can only work on it maybe 1-2 hours a day because it's just a side project.
So I think your tool either estimates based on very bad programmers, or it's just wrong. Or maybe 10x programmers are real and I am him
- simonw 9mo agoHere's more about the COCOMO model it uses: https://dwheeler.com/sloccount/sloccount.html#cocomo https://dwheeler.com/sloccount/sloccount.html#cocomo
- pizlonator 9mo agoSounds like nonsensical pseudoscience
- simonw 9mo agoI don't take those results very seriously myself, but have you seen anything better?
- pizlonator 9mo agoNo To me this is a case where knowing that you don't have data is better than having data and pretending it means anything
- lifthrasiir 9mo agoThese metrics necessarily have to underestimate programmer skills because those are not directly controllable. If there is any sort of rigor in these metrics (i.e. I don't know if COCOMO is one of them) they will probably assume, say, a mundane programmer whose performance is worse than 90/95/99% of all other programmers.