[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:34 -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:

> My offer is $200 paid to the programmer through PayPal whenever the cross 
> compiler and linker is complete and working; that is, when it can compile a 
> reasonable C source program, and the 6809 assembler output is ok.

First, (a) I'd love to do it (b) I don't have time (there I did it! I
can so no to more fun projects!) but:

I guess the best thing to do would be to add 6809 target to SDCC, or
complete the GCC 6809 target.

You might as well give away a big box of cookies though than $200... as
an "expert C programmer," to put it into perspective, it isn't uncommon
for a C programmer (contractor) like myself to bill $85-$100 an hour,
and when working through an agency they bill out at $100-$165/hour.

Given this isn't a two hour project, but more like a full-time two-month
project to get something stable, a capable person would be making about
55 cents an hour.

That said, I understand *why* you can't afford the real cost of
contracting to build such a compiler. The market is too small, you would
never recoup the development costs.

If you really want to do monetary support for such a beast, perhaps the
coco community could set aside a pot of money to pay for someone's time
to do this.

Or forget about money and just convince somebody to make a good start on
the work and several individuals polish it, ala the Free Software
paradigm. Few of us can spend 2 months working for $.55/hour, but most
programmers can afford a week of that here and there...


Anyway, that's my $.55 :-)

-- John.