Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:57:08 11/27/02
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On November 27, 2002 at 17:00:33, Bob Durrett wrote: [snip] >>The standard for programming is that a good programmer creates 10 lines of >>debugged code per hour. That means 400 hours. A "cheap" consulting rate for >>someone of Bob's ability is $100/hour. That means the evaluation function was a >>$40,000 development. > >Someone needs to tell Bob Hyatt about this. He could be rich! 51,000 lines of >code divided by ten and then multiplied by $100 would be, I think, a half a >million dollars! Bob could purchase a really fancy multiprocessor computer for >that! I'll bet he has never thought about it. : ) 50,000 a year for ten years. Sounds about right. Shows how amazing something like GCC or Linux is. They are multi-million dollar projects.
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