From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA22852; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:16 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA22845 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (fichte.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.156]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6CBhEf22596 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id NAA01855; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:11 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:11 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Oleg Cc: OCaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: productivity improvement Message-ID: <20020712114311.GD684@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mail-Followup-To: Oleg , OCaml References: <200207081952.PAA28813@hickory.cc.columbia.edu> <200207121035.GAA26600@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> <20020712112304.GC684@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <200207121133.HAA26986@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207121133.HAA26986@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Oleg wrote: > On Friday 12 July 2002 07:23 am, Markus Mottl wrote: > > If I founded a company > > here using this technology, I'd get into very serious troubles when my > > main programmer gets a brick on his head. Just too risky! > > That's what insurance companies are for. IAE why would you want to hire more > programmers if you were worth a hundred of them (by John's estimate)? Insurance = costs. Furthermore, 1:100 sounds quite a bit too astronomical. I'd say that depending on the kind of the problem 1:3 to 1:10 is reasonable and fits well to the experience of others. E.g., the Erlang developers also report productivity gains in this range on large-scale commercial projects. OCaml will most likely have similar ratios. Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners