Cyclomatic Complexity is pretty old: as an Analyst on a large system (99.99% COBOL) I had to test "each linearly independent path through the program" in 1989,

Cyclomatic Complexity is pretty old: as an Analyst on a large system (99.99% COBOL) I had to test "each linearly independent path through the program" in 1989, and had already achieved "old standard" status.