Re: cobol code assessment

In article <11tolhiaurgtc36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Louis Krupp <lkrupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>HeyBub wrote:
>[snip]
>
>> Be sure to include the "skill inventory" of the staff. For example:
>>
>> Average experience
>> Senior programmers - 12.
>> COBOL: 17.2 years

[snip]

>> etc.
>>
>> With a view toward emphasizing the human investment in the existing
>> methodology.
>
>Slightly OT, but is average experience necessarily a meaningful metric?

Meaning is the result of interpretation, Mr Krup... or so Wittgenstein
might have it.

> Are ten people who can claim a year each of COBOL experience really
>equivalent to one person who can claim ten years, or two people who can
>claim five each? Is ten years' experience worth twice as much as five
>years, or is there a point of diminishing returns?

There is, according to the calendar, no difference whatsoever between
someone who has ten years' experience and someone who has one year ten
times over... but there seem to be things in just about any field that
many appear to learn only over time and with repeated exposure; I know of
no discipline that is obtained perfectly and instantaneously.

DD
.

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