Re: Mining Code Repositories for Language Design

[David Manura <dm.lua@...>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:44 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4107#comment .....
> "serve as a valuable resource for language designers: by providing a
> large collection of code written by different programmers and in
> different styles, it allows language designers to see not just how
> features could be used theoretically, but how they are (and are not)
> used in practice."

Such language design decisions based on quantitative data is what I
had in mind when writing [1].

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-10/msg00449.html