-------- Prvotno sporočilo -------- Datum: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:07:34 -0800 Od: Jon Paynter kittle31@gmail.com
Dear Niall, Thanks for comprehensive report, the biggest project reported so far. I forwarded it to Squeak and Pharo mailing lists. Has anyone data for other big Smalltalk projects/systems, like OOCL etc?
OOCL has 2 smalltalk projects The small one with 2,200 classes and 2 developers
The larger one ranged from 20-50 developers (my guess), and currently has 24,000 classes. And the last time it was measured (a few years ago) we had around 8million lines of code.
And my own personal $0.02 on productivity: One place I worked at as a contractor was a java shop. I was just learning java, so my skills at that time were lousy. We had a small project to do, and I managed to get 2 weeks of time from the local java expert. She came highly recommended by everyone, and after watching her work, she was in deed VERY good. After 2 weeks of struggle, we failed to finish the project. Afterwards, I sat down and did the project in visualworks ( from scratch) in 1 day.
Experience matters, but using the right tool for the job is where its at.
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