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Re^2: A Perl Success Story

by TedYoung (Deacon)

on Apr 28, 2006 at 12:41 UTC ( [id://546255]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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It would be nice if I could. In all, we converted over 100K LOC over three applications, with a minimal amount of hand coding. Where we really saved time was in short term bug support. Had we redisigned everything by hand, surely, we would have had many many more bugs. An off the cuff guess would be on the order of 6 months to do it by hand, instead of just over a week with the conversion.

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Re^3: A Perl Success Story
by derby (Abbot) on Apr 28, 2006 at 12:53 UTC

There's nothing wrong with off-the-cuff guesses and if I had to put a dollar figure on your savings, it would be something like this:

a month is 4 weeks
a week is 40 hours
assume one engineer
assume $100 labor rate
cost for six months - 96,000 (6*4*40*1*100)
cost for one week - 4,000 (40*1*100)
savings - 92,000 (96,000 - 4,000)

To me, these are the types of numbers you take to management not only to show the ROI on perl (and maybe convince them to send a bit of that savings to the Perl Foundation) but more importantly to show the ROI on you (and maybe convince them to spend a bit of that savings on you).

-derby

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