reference: programming time

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bluurryy

in General Discussion • Other • 3 years ago

I'm working on a little project and I'm interested as a reference:

how long did how many people have to program a famous thing like windows or something like that?

does someone have an idea?

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PhiLho

Re: reference: programming time

3 years ago

This question makes little sense... Windows what? 1.0? 3.0? XP? All of them?

Now, a site like Ohloh https://www.ohloh.net/ might provide some answers, at least for open source software.

bluurryy

Re: Re: reference: programming time

3 years ago

that doesn't matter.

or better: would be interested how long it took to program windows office word. the first version..

something like that..

because I want to tell the lectors of my work that this isn't that easy how it looks, so it would be nice to have a huge example ;)

PhiLho

Re: reference: programming time

3 years ago

Again, look at Ohloh. For example, for https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice, they list 7676 Person Years (Project Cost section). Something more modest like FileZilla is estimated at 61 Person Years.

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