Re: Maple Vs Mathematica debugging

Making schoonschip can be expensive. Take a commercial-product
kernel of 2M C++ lines. An average programmer can produce say 500
lines
of debugged C++ per year. Cost: 4000 man-years, or roughly $600
million.
Need to sell 4 million copies at $1500 each to recover the cost.

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