More rational language design

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Bearophile (you should change your nick or not) wrote:

[I found this litter while walking along the highway]:

"If one of the challenges of evolving a widely used language is
that there's a lot of code out there that we don't want to break,
one of the benefits is that there's a lot of code out there that we
can use to analyze how often certain idioms come up. By grabbing a
big body of code (a corpus) and running an analysis tool (often an
instrumented version of the compiler) over it, you can learn a lot
about how often certain idioms come up in the real world, and
whether they are prevalent enough to influence how we evolve the
language."

Do tell Bearophile (you should really consider changing your nick)
what part of that you don't understand. Spill. (I don't dare ya,
nor do I want or not want you to. I see you. (Not a good or bad
thing, lest I tripped up your M.O.! LOL!)