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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: sagans of lines of Fortran?
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 20:03:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.085256@trc.amoco.com> <61115@aurs01.UUCP>
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- In article <61115@aurs01.UUCP> throop@aurs01.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
- >> From: zkdc05@trc.amoco.com (Kelly D. Crawford)
- >> With trillions of lines of existing Fortran in the scientific
- >> marketplace, it is a travesty not to teach CS students Fortran sometime
- >> during their education.
-
- >Let's see... assume Fortran emitted at a furious continuous pace
- >of 1000 lines/day, every day since 1960, and we get
-
- > 1e12 loc
- > divide 1e3 loc/developer-day = 1e9 developer-days
- > divide 365 days/year ~= 2739726 developer-years
- > divide 32 years (since 1960) ~= 85616 developers
-
- >or about 86 thousand Fortran-coding speed-demons continuously
- >employed since 1960 for every trillion of those trillions of lines.
-
- >Impressive.
-
- >( Yes, Kelly was probably being hyperbolistic... )
-
- Not by too large a factor. I would not be surprised it more than 10,000
- students were writing Fortran at each of the 100 largest universities in
- this country. This would give a good million developers. With that
- number of people writing Fortran, the other figures could be relaxed.
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