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Rene,
An excellent book that discusses these sorts of aspects of the software
development process is "Rapid Development" by Steve McConnell, ISBN:
1556159005. I seem to remember that it has a good number of references to
studies that have been performed.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene A. Krywult [mailto:rene.krywult{([at]})nowhere.xy> Sent: Saturday, 28 February 2004 10:11 PM
> To: Blackbox
> Subject: Maintenance cost - promoting BB & CP
>
<snip>
>
> Now, he does not want only WORDS, he wants PROOF. Are you aware of any
> research, study or statistics telling anything about complexity,
> language used, documentation, development cost and maintenance cost?
>
> This would help extremely.
>
>
> Rene
>
>
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