SPUG: CPAN code worth $500M

Michael R. Wolf MichaelRWolf at att.net
Sun Aug 8 14:07:25 CDT 2004


Michael R. Wolf wrote:

 > CPAN == 5,000 person-years of work!!!!
 >
 > Back-of-the-email-envelope-calculation....
 >
 >     $100K/yr/programmer * 5,000 programmer-yrs == $500,000,000

Not too far off....  The actual "study" 
(http://www.etla.org/stdout/code/cpan_sloccount.html) quotes:

     5,012 programmer-years
     $677M

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
     All mammals learn by playing!
         MichaelRWolf at att.net


More information about the spug-list mailing list