Format Book / Offline paper
Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Reliability Beats Brilliance

"Halstead program length is the total number of operator occurrences plus the total number of operand occurrences in a program."

Halstead's software-science framework derives program metrics from counts of operators and operands, with program length defined as N1 plus N2.

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Source title Elements of Software Science
Source authors Maurice Howard Halstead
Source year 1977
Confidence high
Importance mid
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