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Jul 22, 2013 at 15:19 comment added user53019 @Dunk - consider expanding that line of thought into a full answer. It's reasonable / acceptable to state "Your question is based upon a faulty premise. This is what you should be looking at, and this is the answer you should find."
Jul 22, 2013 at 14:46 comment added Dunk How many problems did Frank Lloyd Wright have to solve in his 1000 structures versus Anders Hejsberg in defining his mere 5 languages? Wright got to make decisions by decree, Anders had to justify decisions to many people just as smart and knowledgeable as him. I'll bet that Anders had to solve many, many more issues. So your throwing numbers in the mix is merely on what you are choosing to count and not any REAL quantifiable comparable numbers. So I like the question, I just don't like the reasoning/examples inspiring the question. SW efficiency has improved tremendously over the years.
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S Jul 17, 2013 at 13:53 history suggested Ampt CC BY-SA 3.0
Attempted to format the question to make it more digestible and readable. Also added learning tag because, at the core, this is about how reuse affects learning.
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Jul 17, 2013 at 3:44 answer added Amot timeline score: -1
Jul 17, 2013 at 0:58 comment added gnat @GlenH7 expanded it into the answer, mostly to include pictures of bridges :)
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Jul 16, 2013 at 23:58 comment added user53019 @gnat - that's an excellent insight and a perspective I hadn't pondered yet. Other aspects of the SDLC become much more efficient due to that repetition.
S Jul 16, 2013 at 23:24 history bounty started gnat
S Jul 16, 2013 at 23:24 history notice added gnat Draw attention
Jul 16, 2013 at 23:23 comment added gnat good software projects "shift" a lot of repeatability into QA. When I was a tester in 1,5 year long project, we run test cycles at weekly "checkpoint" releases, about 70 times total through the project. That was... quite repeatable, softly speaking (not much things change in a week). Testing nightly builds has been, naturally, even more repeatable - about 500 times through the project (few entertaining showstopper bugs were too rare to make a difference). Now, tell me a construction company that has built 500 bridges - all with the same team
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Jul 14, 2013 at 19:12 comment added Deer Hunter If you've written a piece of code, you've essentially solved a problem. If you are good at it, this piece solves a CLASS of problems. If you are really good, it is extensible to a metaclass of problems. And then you lose interest: there is no need to perfect one bicycle if there are unsolved design problems lying around. The thrill of problem solving comes from shining new stuff, not from polishing old problems into perfection.
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