[clug] Code Search

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:40:04AM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Sorry for the slashdot link, I didn't know about these resources and thought others might be interested.

>  Google Unveils Code Search
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/129201

> http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search
> http://www.krugle.com/
> http://www.koders.com/
> http://www.codase.com./


> >Google now has a page that supports source code searching. I hope
> >they extend it to be more programming-language aware (e.g., search
> >for identifiers and functions) like the specialist code search sites
> >(Krugle, Koders, and Codease), who probably now have very worried
> >investors. I don't see any option to search for Cobol. I guess there
> >is not a lot of Cobol source available on the Internet, even although
> >there is supposed to be more Cobol source in existence than any other
> >language (perhaps that statement is not true in the noughties)."

And where there's code, there's humour...

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/94630.aspx

== Bad word follows... ==

I particularly liked
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22what+the+fuck%3F%22&btnG=Search
which caused me to learn about the method of approximating zeroes. ^_^

See? Fun _and_ educational.

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