[fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?

Steve Howe howesteve at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 16:40:47 CET 2008


Hello all,
> Skybuck Flying schreef:
> > If everybody does a little bit it could go quite quickly.
>
> Some (arbitrary numbers) from http://www.ohloh.net/p/linux:
> Codebase  	 10,679,927 lines
> Effort (est.) 	3,396 Person Years
>
> So, if everybody on this list (maybe 300 persons) work on it, then it
> can be done in just over 11 years. Not so quickly, IMHO.
Although the effort is huge, and the topic is senseless, porting is much 
faster then creating/coding/debugging. The numbers above do not reflect a port 
and are pointless.

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Best Regards,
Steve Howe



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