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CPAN: $677 Million of Perl

Posted by michael on from the wooden-nickel dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Perl coders make $135k/year? by Minwee · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.