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Kylix vs. gcc Development
Remote writes: "Borland has a paper [.pdf] by William Roetzheim comparing development and maintenance costs of software development using Kylix and gcc. Bottom line is that applications written with gcc are twice as expensive (timewise) both to write and to maintain, and about 50% more expensive to document. The comparison was done using parametric modeling techniques but the author claims that his tool has 7% accuracy. While I don't do Pascal myself, I wonder if the same would apply after they port C++ Builder to Linux and compare it to something like KDevelop + gcc."
Borland sponsored and is distributing this study -- take it for what you will. Interested parties can still produce useful studies, and may even be in the best position for collecting this sort of data. But whether Kylix matches your development environment or licensing philosophy is up to you.
fp, by the way.
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