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From: bretm@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: LISP software metrics.
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 10:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 13 10:44:00 1986
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I am currently involved in a project that is attempting to define some useful
software metrics for LISP.  In imperative programming languages a simple count
of lines, as well as some notion of 'program density' are often used 
as metrics.  The functional programming environment seems to be a quite
different situation, and measures such as number of lines does not seem
to say very much about the actual size (complexity) of the program in
question.  I am looking for information, literature or just plain 
opinions on what would be good things to measure.   
                                         Thanks much,
                                         Bret A. Mckee
                                         (hpfcla!bretm)