"Erann Gat" <···@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> http://rover.cs.northwestern.edu/~surana/blog/
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> Lots of interesting things to say about Lisp and other programming topics.
A product to match VB?
Lets see....
Visual Basic, 10 years in development, let's say (conservatively) 100 people
on the develop team. Owned by Microsoft. That's 1000 man-years, with
full documentation. Now lets add on all the widgets added on by users, say
another 1000 people over 10 years. So for the sake of argument let's
say 11,000 man-years of work @ about $100 per hour.
Now forgetting all the user added functionality and with Lisp development
being 10 times as fast as other development methods, that's 100
man-years (at $100/hr, 200 working days per year) and voila!
$16,000,000 US
Sounds about right. Anyone up to raising the money? I am sure
the 20 people over 5 years could be found.
Wade