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Why Vista Release Date Really Slipped
anzev writes "A team manager for Windows for 5 years has decided to write a blog-essay about what caused Windows Vista project to miss the due date. Philip tells us in the blog, that Windows developers are writing an average of 5000 lines of code (which is *only* 1200 lines less than the national average of 6200 lines of code per year). He addresses issues like the Vista code being too complicated, the processes the developers have to follow too complex and a lot more. All in all it gives a nice insight into why Vista will be late, from a different perspective. Oh, and Slashdot gets mentioned too ;-)."
Far more nuanced. Some parts of Vista are bloated pieces of crap. Some, on the other hand, won't even ship. And still others will be incredibly efficient, presumably the important stuff like federal backdoors and DRM.
I don't see things in black and white! There are shades of grey in there too!
(I'm only kidding by the way, and in reality don't give a shit about Vista)
Obviously the other thing that is too complex is the whole to/too/two thing ;)
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Vista code being /too/ complicated...
According to this data, those figures put Vista somewhere above Piccolo after merging with Kami, with Red Hat at the level of Super Saiyan Vegeta (after time chamber). In the words of the late great Leonard Nimoy, fascinating.
Also, what bracketing convention does each of those use? Are Red Hat artificially inflating their count with 15,000,000 lines consisting of
and another 15,000,000 consisting of ?...as bear is to taking a crap in the woods?
...as Pope is to being Catholic?
Actually, Windows developers go "What the CHKDSK.EXE?"
John
The largest software project in mankind's history now threatens to also be the longest.
Nah, that would be Duke Nukem Forever........
Maybe if the team manager wasn't writing a blog, and concentrated on managing his team, Vista might not slip so much. I'll consult my Gantt chart and get back to you.
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Bad shape by a constant = Windows 4.0 to Windows XP
Bad shape by an order of magnitude = Windows 98 to Windows Me
Bad shape by an infinite order = MS Bob
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I didn't think that Leonard Nimoy was "late", wikipedia and imdb make no mention of it.
Has this just happened, or are you personally aquainted with said gentleman and simply lamenting his constant tardiness?
"In the words of the late great Leonard Nimoy, fascinating."
Good grief man, Leonard Nimoy isn't dead, don't use "late" like that. I went running looking for news after I read this... are you trying to give me a heart attack?!?
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We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
... who think this writer should lay of the Ctrl+B for a bit? The emphasis in my inner voice is driving me bonkers.
5000 lines / year boils down to about 25 lines / 8 hours, close to 3 lines per hour. What the heck are they doing there. Not to mention that in a big company like that, you have project and code management:
#Source control code
#
#Windows Vista (forever) v4.4.4
oooh, an hour work
#
#This code will open a port so we can control users
#
main () {
void port(5000)
#I ran into some problem here
# Fixme: crashes randomly
function (open) {
}
}
OK, time for lunch...
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45, it was written in Perl.
Hmm. I can't help but wonder if the real issue isn't the gratuitous use of bold type. Turning bold on and off in their editor of choice must cut down on their productivity by several lines a year.
I miss the days when people didn't constantly believe everything used to be better.
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