[sword-devel] Sword's cash value :)

Troy A. Griffitts sword-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:18:25 -0700


NO!  Many people have contributed over the years!  And I'm sure if you
run BibleTime thru this, you'll get higher numbers!

Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> 
> I found a small program called "sloccount".
> It estimates the value of a program using the number of lines of code.
> Here's the output for Sword :
> 
> -------------
> Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
> cpp:          46447 (73.96%)
> ansic:        13318 (21.21%)
> tcl:           1602 (2.55%)
> sh:             792 (1.26%)
> perl:           547 (0.87%)
> sed:             93 (0.15%)
> 
> Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 62,799
> Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 15.45 (185.38)
>  (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
> Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 1.52 (18.19)
>  (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
> Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 10.19
> Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 2,086,854
>  (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
> Please credit this data as "generated using 'SLOCCount' by David A. Wheeler."
> -------------
> 
> Many many thanks to Troy, he did the major part of Sword! Troy spent over 2
> million dollars for Sword. I hope we'll get another two million...
> ;)
> 
> Joachim