Thanks Israel - will read with interest. So that measure might provide a good basis for cognitive comparison in the way that Chris and I were proposing.
By the way, we need to keep in mind that there are two sources of entropy that seem to get conflated in discussion of program metrics: A) the entropy in the program itself (e.g. graph of control structure, data structure, type structure etc) B) the entropy in the programming tools being used (language syntax, execution model, libraries etc) The Arbuckle paper you've recommended is related to the first of these, not the second (as far as I can tell). Alan > 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 > -- Alan Blackwell Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge Further details from www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/
