There will be a related paper at OOPSLA this year:
http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=29
which will talk about automatically finding things a little more
primitive than patterns and drawing some conclusions from that. The
methodology *might* be applicable at least in part to answering the
overall question posed of the distribution of pattern usage in real
systems.
(The authors of the paper are not patterns fans, but the paper was
shepherded (by Kent Beck) to eliminate problems related to that.)
-rpg-
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