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{{short description|Software maintainability index}}
'''Halstead complexity measures''' are [[software metric]]s introduced by [[Maurice Halstead|Maurice Howard Halstead]] in 1977<ref name="Elements of Software Science">{{cite book |author=Halstead, Maurice H. |title=Elements of Software Science |publisher=Elsevier North-Holland, Inc. |___location=Amsterdam |year=1977 |isbn=0-444-00205-7}}</ref> as part of his treatise on establishing an empirical science of software development.
Halstead made the observation that metrics of the software should reflect the implementation or expression of algorithms in different languages, but be independent of their execution on a specific platform.
These metrics are therefore computed statically from the code.
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