[sword-devel] Sword's cash value :)

[Joachim Ansorg]

I found a small program called "sloccount".
It estimates the value of a program using the number of lines of code.
Here's the output for Sword :

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Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
cpp:          46447 (73.96%)
ansic:        13318 (21.21%)
tcl:           1602 (2.55%)
sh:             792 (1.26%)
perl:           547 (0.87%)
sed:             93 (0.15%)


Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 62,799
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 15.45 (185.38)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 1.52 (18.19)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 10.19
Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 2,086,854
 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
Please credit this data as "generated using 'SLOCCount' by David A. Wheeler."
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Many many thanks to Troy, he did the major part of Sword! Troy spent over 2 
million dollars for Sword. I hope we'll get another two million...
;)


Joachim