A possible future purpose for D1 [rant]

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> 5. I've discovered over the years that programmers write in
>> particular "islands" of the language. No matter how large a code
>> base they produce, they never stray outside that island, so once
>> the bugs they initially encountered are fixed, they never run into
>> compiler bugs anymore. The coverage of a test suite is simply not a
>> function of number of lines of code thrown at it.
> 
> This is interesting. I know that different groups of C++ programmers
> use a different "tidy" subset of C++ (for example Google coding
> standards forbid many C++ features), but I have never read of this. I
> presume the mind of human programmers works in a more grammar-based
> way compared to the normal linguistic generative capabilities. I'll
> send an email to Steven Pinker about this.


You see a similar thing with writers. A writer can be identified by 
doing a statistical analysis of the words/phrases used.