Code dialects

Somewhere, deep inside of me, linguist meets baby-geek and becomes intrigued by this article on programmers use of code languages apparently, when you look at someone's code you can tell [once you're fluent]: "What editor they use, what idioms they use to avoid common pitfalls, and what organization patterns they employ all tell you what kind of programmer you're meeting."
A dialectology of computer code? Perhaps with its own sociolinguistics! Wonder if anyone has researched it from this angle?

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