My experience is that people prefer to ignore the implications of Halstead’s metric and McCabe’s complexity metric being strongly correlated (non-linearly) with lines of code (LOC). The implications being that they have been deluding themselves and perhaps wasting time/money using Halstead/McCabe when they could just as well have used LOC.| The Shape of Code
My experience is that most of the programs created within organizations are very short, i.e., around 50–100 lines. Sometimes entire businesses are run using many short programs strung together in various ways. These short programs invariably make extensive use of the functionality provided by a much larger package that handles all the complicated stuff.| The Shape of Code
I got an ISSN for no real reason. Richard pointed out on Mastodon that you can get an ISSN for a blog as long as it's not a personal blog. I have a personal blog and it's not this one. So I got an ISSN for this, partly just to learn the process. It was very simple, just walking through some steps on| librarian.net
