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• Subject: Re: Recursive data structures
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:52:06 -0500
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• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:00 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> I used to count the indentation number and use it
> as a rough estimate of system complexity.
>
> Don't go there.  It is a portal to hell. ;-)

Interestingly, I did do some work on complexity metrics for SGML years 
ago. Took in the markup/text ratio, #attributes, and nesting depth, 
and produced a number. I never did that much with it, except verify 
that if roughly reflected my opinion. From memory, nesting depth (D) 
was scaled in as something like D squared.

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