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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

5 days seems pretty reasonable to design and build most stuff. It's function and system/integrated test that takes time not to say there's not random bits of work that take months before anything testable can be produced.

*My experience is in giant systems processing mainframe class data. The programmers in my team use COBOL