Sloccount is the new *

Published January 7, 2005

After reading about sloccount at a number of places, I just had to try it out on the souce code of skEdit. Here are the numbers:

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)
37,273
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months)
8.93 (107.20)
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)
1.23 (14.77)
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)
7.26
Total Estimated Cost to Develop
$ 1,206,718

So, 7.26 developers working for 1.23 years at a cost of $1.2 million. Of course, lines of code is not the best measure, but it's still kind of neat.

37,273 Lines of code? wow!

I think I speak for all of your customers when I say, we really appreciate all the effort you've put into skEdit. It's a wonderful editor! And I'm excited for it's future.

Joshua Heyer on January 8, 2005 #

So we're paying about than .05c per line of code for your masterpiece....

Not only is it an awesome app, it's amazingly good value as well !

Jeremy E Cath on January 10, 2005 #

Like Jeremy mentioned, its a great app. Lightweight and does exactly what its meant to do. Can't wait for the new release :)

Amit Karmakar on January 25, 2005 #

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