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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
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> Halstead may have defined a number of metrics, but the one that seemed to
be
> discussed here was one for measuring volume of source code. I don't recall
> the definition (someone help here?) but it had to do with looking at the
> operators and the identifiers in a body of source and coming up with a
> number that tried to reflect the semantic content.

Halstead defined something like a dozen or twenty metrics for source code,
including the one you described.

When the obvious studies were done on real programs, lots of them, *ALL* of
his metrics were shown to be very strongly correlated with SLOC.  At that
point, interest faded, because SLOC is far easier to measure than any of
Halstead's metrics.