Re: Maple Vs Mathematica debugging

carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
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.


Didn't you mean 5000 lines per year?
That would divide the programming cost by 10. A commercial
project requires much more than just programmers, so maybe
500 millions $ for such a project is a correct estimation.
.

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