> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 11:14 AM
> Bob's assertion that there were 5,000 "function points" got me to
> thinking. Intuitively, I know that's several orders of magnitude
> too small,
You're right, I did drop a zero; it should have said "50,000 function
points." However, that's only one order of magnitude, not several.
Do you really think Linux has 500K or 5M function points?
> ... count the number of unique addresses sending mail to some of the
> mailing lists that I'm on.
> ...
> total of 15419 addresses
If Linux is 5M FPs, those people would have had to put in about
8 years full time each to have created it.
Putting it another way, is Linux really nearly a billion lines
of source code?
Bob Munck
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