From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 18 May 93 16:04:47 GMT From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa (David Emery) Subject: Re: Study shows Ada tools ten times more costly Message-ID: List-Id: Does Capers Jones define what he means by "function point"? Another relevant point is the effect of 'group tools'. It's very easy to equip a PC for individual work. It's a lot harder (but less hard than it used to be) to equip a collection of PC's for a group project. A third point that I'd like to make here on the specific topic of DoD tools is the significant cost of embedded system tools, such as cross-compilers, In-Circuit Emulators, etc. These tools are very expensive even for commercial applications, and the additional requirements for DoD software doesn't help the price any. It would be very interesting to see a collection of cost curves showing 'capitalization' costs for PC-based, workstation-based, mainframe-based, embedded targets, for single-programmer to large (>100 programmer) projects, and from low-reliability (games?) to very high reliability (e.g. avionics) applications. dave