> I think that information content is the way to go. 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. > Of course there are a few major problems such as different people > seeing different information contents in the same code and > just because the information is there does not mean > that readers will extract it (they might be tired or > overloaded). > > > -- > Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 > Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:de...@knosof.co.uk > Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk > -- Alan Blackwell Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge Further details from www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/