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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?"
While it's not nearly as big as CPAN, I often find Python code I need in the Vaults of Parnassus
On average, salary is only half of what a company pays for an employee. If you count benefits, office space, training, administration and all of the other costs involved that $135k works out to more like a $67,000 salary.
A junior programmer working in Manhattan makes about $60,000 a year according to a recent salary survey, going up to $90,000 for a senior guru. Based on those numbers I don't see anything wrong with the $135k/year figure.
Coders may not _make_ $135,000, but they do _cost_ that much to employ.
I only looked at a handfull of the links. It's sort of a Yahoo! (the original indexer, not todays search engine-cum-kitchen sink) for Python code, which is ok, but check out how one uses CPAN in the real world:I'm sure you can see how this makes CPAN far more useful for building a large repository of useful Perl modules. How, in Python, can you build several layers of libraries that depend on each other without this kind of repository of dependency information? How does a user "come into the know" about these factors?
Of course, that ignores the fact that CPAN modules all come with regression testing and online documentation (installed in the sytem "man" tree) as well.