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Subject: Re: Alternatives to Using Position Eval FUNCTIONS?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:57:08 11/27/02

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On November 27, 2002 at 17:00:33, Bob Durrett wrote:
[snip]
>>The standard for programming is that a good programmer creates 10 lines of
>>debugged code per hour.  That means 400 hours.  A "cheap" consulting rate for
>>someone of Bob's ability is $100/hour.  That means the evaluation function was a
>>$40,000 development.
>
>Someone needs to tell Bob Hyatt about this.  He could be rich!  51,000 lines of
>code divided by ten and then multiplied by $100 would be, I think, a half a
>million dollars!  Bob could purchase a really fancy multiprocessor computer for
>that!  I'll bet he has never thought about it.  : )

50,000 a year for ten years.  Sounds about right.

Shows how amazing something like GCC or Linux is.  They are multi-million dollar
projects.



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