From: Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>
Date: 2003-11-28T22:57:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advertisement article [Computerwoche]

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Ruby advertisement article [Computerwoche]"
>     on 03/11/27, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
> 
> |> I have developed Ruby for 10 years, with help from
> |> other developers all over the world.  Currently we have nearly 40 CVS
> |> committers.
> |
> |Sounds like 400 man-years, then, representing - oh, I don't know -
> |squillions of Euros! :)
> 
> Remember I worked alone for the first 3 years or so.
> 

Then of course it's   3 + (40 + 1) * 0.5 * (10 - 3) = 146.5 man years.

Tobias