here's a question: what's with your company's obsession with .NET? it is not open source, and is probably meant simply as a snare by microsoft to get perl programmers into the microsoft camp (embrace and extend, remember?).
Lori Pike wrote: > > We would like to do some Perl advocacy with the media and do it in a fun > catchy way (in order to better get their attention). Accordingly, does > anyone have estimates on any of the following for Perl (similar to what > was recently estimated for Linux in http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/): > > * developer time contributed to writing Perl core > * person-years of development time based on COCOMO model > * number of developers that have contributed > * lines of code > * cost to develop by conventional proprietary means > * anything else that might be an interesting/unusual stat > > Thanks! > Lori > > Lori Pike > Director Corporate Communications, ActiveState > phone 604.484.6417 / cell 604.808.6655 > http://www.ActiveState.com
