SPUG: CPAN code worth $500M

Daniel James djames at canyonwood.org
Sun Aug 8 19:33:25 CDT 2004


Michael R. Wolf wrote:

> >     $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

I think I'm working for the wrong company...  I'm making neither $100k 
nor ($677m/5012) = $135,075.82!

If anyone knows of any openings with either of these salaries, I'm 
presently updating my resume and would love to hear from you! ;-)
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