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The thought of finding patterns and correlations purely by mechanical analysis of a high-level model of source code is tantalizing. Reminds me of a friend of mine who thinks it should be possible to abolish garbage collection by statically analysing the source code for allocation patterns.
As for redundant code, there’s a simple reason it’s still all over the place: insufficiently expressive languages. Abstracting commonalities and removing repetition is much easier when the code is itself mani