Ninety-Ninety Rule
<humour> "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the
development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of
the development time".
An aphorism attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs, and popularised by Jon
Bentley's September 1985 "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" column in
"Communications of the ACM". It was there called the "Rule of Credibility", a
name which seems not to have stuck.
[Jargon File]
(1995-07-14)
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