Subject: Lines of Code and Man-power estimate for Maxima
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:55:42 -0700
Do I understand that this says
You should be able to write Maxima in 3 years with 32 programmers at a
cost of $13 million dollars?
Somehow I don't think this works out for issues like: how long does it
take
to write a program that no one knew how to write, but figured out, in
the course of earning a PhD?
Also the idea that one can hire 32 programmers and have them do useful
work starting
at day 1, seems unworkable. Maybe the SLOCCount "methodology" attempts to
account for it.
RJF