Excerpts from Alan Blackwell's message of Thu Dec 10 19:00:29 +0100 2009: > 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).
Yes, that paper is about the first kind of entropy that you mention. About the second one, you might find this paper interesting: A semantic entropy metric http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/smr.255 Cheers, Israel