Re: How to identify a website's scale?

Lew wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
On Wed, 07 May 2008 21:53:06 -0400, Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the time allotted for development.

Given that, you'd think large corporations would simply not put up
with "violin-making" style low level languages where every line is
lovingly crafted character by character.

You'd think the would demand the same brutal mass production applied
to goods.

I don't follow your logic. One would expect, if that formula held over the entire domain, that companies would extend projects to the longest feasible schedule.

Did he mean the total cost of the project or a cost per time?

If he meant total cost, this quote really makes no sense to me.

Phil
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