Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Determining C Complexity
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.165322.2729@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3205@mica6.UUCP> <1050@ashton.UUCP> <142@srchtec.UUCP> <2592@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 16:53:22 GMT

In article <2592@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>In my experience, metrics are completely useless...

I concur.  Code metrics, like line counts and structure charts and a zillion
other programming fads, are an attempt to substitute rules and procedures
for adequate resources and competence.  Bureaucrats cling to the belief
that this approach can be made to work, even in the face of overwhelming
evidence that it doesn't, because adequate resources are expensive and
competence is difficult to assess and costly to retain.  TANSTAAFL.
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