On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:50, Israel Herraiz wrote:
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
Interesting. A friend just sent me this reference:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p/weimer-issta2008-readability.pdf
This makes a distinction between readability and complexity :)
--J
