Re: compiler writing as a career?

A Pietu Pohjalainen <pohjalai@cc.helsinki.fi>
21 Jun 2004 23:39:37 -0400

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From: A Pietu Pohjalainen <pohjalai@cc.helsinki.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 21 Jun 2004 23:39:37 -0400
Organization: University of Helsinki
References: 04-06-015 04-06-025 04-06-039 04-06-059
Keywords: practice, jobs
Posted-Date: 21 Jun 2004 23:39:37 EDT

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> [My rule of thumb is that the first 90% of the work takes the first
>> 90% of the time, and the other 90% of the work takes the other 90%
>> of the time. -John]
> I always thought that the 90% plus 90% quote also came from
> Brooks's "Mythical Man Month", but I can't find it there.
> Does anyone know the origin of this quote?


The original seems to be 'Rule of Credibility': The first 90% of the
code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining
10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.


- Tom Cargill
    Bell Labs


Appears in Jon Bentley's September 1985 "Bumper-Sticker Computer
Science" column in Communications of the ACM.


br,
Pietu Pohjalainen

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