From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-04 23:48:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:07:27 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1017943649 3166 136.170.200.133 (4 Apr 2002 18:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 2002 18:07:29 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22135 Date: 2002-04-04T18:07:29+00:00 List-Id: You're saying that SLOCs/month was a larger number than Halstead-Bits/month?(id est, 1 programmer for 1 month produces 1 module that measures at 1000 SLOC or 500 Halsteads?) I wouldn't be surprised, but that wasn't what I meant. I meant that there was a really high correlation between SLOC, Semicolons & Halsteads - you could pretty much write an equation of the form: "Halsteads = (M * SLOCs) + B" and have it be pretty darned close to being right on the money. Or are you saying something different? MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "M�rio Amado Alves" wrote in message news:mailman.1017939422.18187.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > > You're both right. I also did a study correlating program text metrics > and actual development cost in programmers*month. SLOC had the best > results, notably beating Halstead. It was a small project (10k SLOCs if > I remember correctly), but it was unbiased i.e. the programmers didn't > know about the metrics in advance. >