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On 26/10/2010 08:44, steve donovan wrote:
"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."
In a slightly different (but related) axis, JVM designers analyzed lot of bytecode in industrial applications to find patterns and hints on what to optimize.
-- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --