Been there. Did not get the t-shirt, but I did perform a [large empirical study][1] on McCabe's. It turns out that once you account for hetero-scedasticity it g

Been there. Did not get the t-shirt, but I did perform a [large empirical study][1] on McCabe's. It turns out that once you account for hetero-scedasticity it gives almost no more information than lines of code. Whether that reflects more on McCabe's or the average programming style, I (still) leave as an exercise to the reader. [1]: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=779 http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=7... "Cyclomatic Complexity and Lines of Code: Empirical Evidence of a Stable Linear Relationship"