Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Determining C Complexity
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.211822.3737@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3205@mica6.UUCP> <1050@ashton.UUCP> <142@srchtec.UUCP> <2592@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1990Jul26.165322.2729@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 90 21:18:22 GMT

In article <1990Jul26.165322.2729@zoo.toronto.edu> I wrote:
>... 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...  TANSTAAFL.

Several people have asked about the acronym; the expansion is "There Ain't
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".  (I believe it was Heinlein who coined
the acronym, although the phrase has been around for a long time.)
-- 
The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry