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From: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Pascal program characterization wanted
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Date: 10 Mar 89 20:42:34 GMT
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In article <7525@pyr.gatech.EDU> gus@pyr.gatech.EDU (gus Baird) writes:
>Rats! Must be getting forgetful.
>
>Do you remember some programs we saw a few years back that would
>examine Pascal programs and come up with a characteristic?
>The (number? vector?) was computed from the number of variables,
>of statements, and so on, I think.
   ...
>But I just can't seem to shake a citation out of my head. 
>Anybody remember offhand?
>Got one?


This was one use of the counts for Halstead numbers.  References include:

Maurice H. Halstead
_Elements of Software Science_
Elsevier 1977

M.H. Halstead and Victor Schneider
"Self-Assessment Procedure VII"
_Communications of the ACM_
August 1980, Volume 23, number 8
pages 475-480
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