Cool. I've noticed that general program complexity seems to be a topic that everyone acknowledges, but nobody tries to frame objectively. Except for a few people at the fringes.
I'm not sure that I understand and/or agree with this link. However, I've written and talked about this topic in the past and the response that I've gotten is usually some variation of, "Cool, but I'm not sure that I get it."
It feels kind of like the blind men describing the elephant. People are grasping at something that's probably real, but it's so big that it's going to take a long time before we finally manage to pin down anything concrete. The effort has to start somewhere though.
I'm not sure any attempt I've seen covers everything, but I think it's interesting that people keep trying to describe something that looks suspiciously similar.
I'm not sure that I understand and/or agree with this link. However, I've written and talked about this topic in the past and the response that I've gotten is usually some variation of, "Cool, but I'm not sure that I get it."
It feels kind of like the blind men describing the elephant. People are grasping at something that's probably real, but it's so big that it's going to take a long time before we finally manage to pin down anything concrete. The effort has to start somewhere though.
Other interesting occurrences:
http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf (out of the tar pit) https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf (semantic compression) https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-la...
I'm not sure any attempt I've seen covers everything, but I think it's interesting that people keep trying to describe something that looks suspiciously similar.