Excerpts from Alan Blackwell's message of Thu Dec 10 18:28:22 +0100 2009: > Absolutely. So the Harrison paper is "An entropy-based measure of > software complexity" from IEEE Trans Software Eng, 18(11) > 1025-1029. > > That paper might be a good starting point for a discussion of > what would be a meaningful information content measure in > comparing software source code.
There is a recent paper on a similar topic: Measure software - and its evolution - using information content http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1595808.1595831 Cheers, Israel
