21:33: sloccount

sloccount libvisualid-dev reports:

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
sh: 9198 (78.84%)
ansic: 2471 (21.16%)

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 11,669
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 2.64 (31.67)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 0.77 (9.29)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 3.41
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 356,473 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).

(generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount')

All of the shell-script code is generated by the GNU Autotools, so using Automake, Autoconf, and Libtool apparently cut my development-costs by 4.3 months and 2.17 developers (bringing the price down to a much-more-reasonable $69,849).

So, use the Autotools--they could save you more than a quarter-million dollars.

Also, if you're unemployed for three months, pretend that you were making less money before you lost your job--I know it makes it hurt less for me to pretend that I only lost $14k....

Actually, that $14k did buy me some cool software.

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