LONG-RANGE CORRELATIONS IN COMPUTER-PROGRAMS

A different view of software complexity based on long-range correlatio ns is presented in this paper. Three different methods are proposed fi rst and then used in the analysis of C ++, FORTRAN, and Pascal program s. All methods being used indicate the presence of long-range correlat ions in programs, but every method gives different results. The presen ce of long-range correlations denotes that we can regard the complexit y of computer programs from a different perspective and use it as an a dvanced software metric.