CPAN: $677 Million of Perl

Adam K writes "It had to happen eventually. CPAN has finally gotten the sloccount treatment, and the results are interesting. At 15.4 million lines of code, CPAN is starting to approach the size of the entire Redhat 6.2 distribution mentioned in David Wheeler's original paper. Could this help explain perl's relatively low position in the SourceForge.net language numbers?"

Comments

Re:Interesting... POPFile cost $500K

[ajs318]

The important difference is, the Working Class can live without the wages paid to them by the Ruling Class for a lot longer than the Ruling Class can live without the work done for them by the Working Class.

Of course the really interesting number is

[Rich]

Lines of debugged code: 0