I recently came across the program 'sloccount' that attempts to calculate the time and money that went into writing software. http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
If ran on the source code of python 2.5 the results are the following: Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 689,996 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years = 191.35 Estimated Average Number of Developers = 48.52 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 25,848,213 Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'." I'm wondering if the person-years and estimated average number of developers numbers are accurate or not - not that it's of any importance, just wondering. And about the 25 million dollars total price tag, well, ummmmm :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
