RE: RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSC 4.0 Machine Requirements

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>From the point of view of the accountants and the managers who have to lay
out the money to provide that kind of system for 10 developers, it appears
more than just the cost of one PC.  If they didn't budget for that a year
ago when they planned what we would need it gets expensive.
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But these accountants can afford the lost productivity?

I know of a guy here who wasted 45 minutes because he was using SEU
instead of Code.  I saw the problem with his CLP very quickly in Code.
Code does a nice job of showing that the line he thought was being
executed was really a comment by changing the color.  Something like
/*  +
 thiscommand   thisparm(ddd) thatparm(xxx)    +
*/
Let's say it was an hour instead of 45 minutes.  At $65/hour, how much ram
can you buy for an hours time?  And that was just one incident.

Rob Berendt
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