Re: SUO: The story I promised
At 4:12 PM -0600 2/27/02, Bill Andersen wrote:
>The hard part was changing all of the code (SQL/C++/Lisp) that was based on
>the faulty assumption(s). That took about 2 person-years of recoding and
>cost roughly $500,000..........
>
>I mentioned earlier that if we had available a methodology such as the one
>proposed by Guarino & Welty, we could have avoided such a mistake.
*sniff* A deeply moving story. In the movie version, who will play
the swashbuckling onto-heroes?
>Well, that's about it. As you can see there's no rocket science here -
Hey, "Omne ignotum pro magnifico," or more to the point, everything
is obvious when revealed. The rocket science is in revealing it -
don't imply what we did was *easy* (especially now that other Chris
has them reviewing my tenure case).
Thanks for posting the story.
-Chris
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