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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?"
If you take out the punctuation, though, it's down to twelve lines of code.
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Bahhh, I know people richer than that!
Now compute the economic gain of using Perl vs. any other language:
Perl vs. Nothing : $677M
Perl vs. C : $1.25B
Perl vs. C# : $2.77B
Perl vs. Hand Optimized Assembly on Honeywell DPS-3E running GCOS operating system: Priceless
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Here, I'll repost the link from the article you never read:
sloccount
Pfft 15.4 Million lines?
/usr/bin/perl ; ;
;
I could write CPAN in a one liner!
#!
use warnings
use strict
print "CPAN:
This
It's relatively low because that list is in alphabetical order!
>"C#"
You misspelled "INTERCAL".
/. response efficiency warning!
To conserve server resources in the future please update your response "Did you even attempt to click the underlined word 'sloccount'? If not, do it now and read the first line of the first paragraph." with the more efficient "RTFA" or "RTFA you stupid noob" if you are not into the whole brevity thing.
D6 63 0D 70 89 81 BB 8E 7B 7C 5F 5D 54 EA AB 73
Although their "Book TV" show is usually as dense as Perl, and often profiles books that are write-only.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
I think Michael Sims has been slacking from his duties. This article didn't contain a single tinfoil hat conspiracy theory or knee-jerk anti-corporate rant.
I'd strongly advise that, like me, you boycott Slashdot until the quality of its articles improve.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
since its donated time, could i detuct that on my taxs?
(not a perl programmer, but if i could, then i probably would start.)
What is more important, lines of code or lines of quality code? People are always so impressed with sheer numbers. Quality is important.
Seriously.
And it's Perl.
I thought the whole point was that you could write a massive Perl program in a single line.
15.4 million just tells me that CPAN is getting sloppy. Let's knock that down to say, 17 HUGE lines, okay?
In any company employing that many perl programmers, there is at least 1 manager per 2 programmers. Therefor:
$135,000 per 2 programmers = $270,000 per year
$200,000 per year for manager
$35,000 x 2 per year for 2 programmers
+_______
$270,000
Now, it's also quite obvious from this math, that the manager must bring in far more value than a programmer. Which leads me to this conclusion, a software company that fires all its programmers and hires more managers could only become a stronger company.
Thank you, thank you. No, I do not have my MBA, but I did glean this all from managers at previous employers. Anyone know of job openings for a computer flunky in the Richmond, VA area?
b) Maybe the sloc counter didn't recognize Perl comments, so it overcounted lines. Wait, Perl programs never have comments.
c) Does this make it "a Perl of great price"?
Have you read my blog lately?
Yes, but close to 75% of all those PHP Projects are a DVD/CD cataloging system.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Yeah, but you have to have an income first.
Look at this: XHTML parser using K programming language :)
Perl is really clean language
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