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antidoh on Nov 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python Web Frameworks' Complexity

If it's a made up metric, it was made up a long time ago:

"Cyclomatic complexity (or conditional complexity) is a software metric (measurement). It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976 ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCabe_complexity

__mharrison__ on Nov 20, 2012 [–]

The question isn't whether cyclomatic complexity is made up. It is what his "excessive complexity" measure is actually measuring. Is it the sum of all the measures? The max? I would argue that neither of those are useful on their own.

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