SourceCodeSearch
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Search engines for source code, by ProgrammingLanguage, SoftwareLicense, API etc :
There used to be several startups trying to do online search for code.
But now MicroSoft have bought GitHub which hosts an awful lot of the code which is online. I guess they're the ones with the biggest code search engine and likely to do any of the exciting things that are discussed on this page.
Old stories
- SocialBookmarking of code : http://lesscode.org/2005/08/30/code-snippets-and-systems-of-ends/
- Uses of code-search : http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone2007laura_merling.html
Initial Thoughts on Koders (a now defunct code-search engine)
That's brilliant! Think about it : your chance to find the bit of code or library you need, with the license you need, right now!
Thoughts :
- support for this needs to be included in AGoodIDE (is there an Emacs or Eclipse plugin?): aparently there is Eclipse integration
- might this be a step towards SmallTools (after all, if your IDE can automatically find and include code snippets, why shouldn't a runtime-environment for interpretted languages)
- is source-code getting marked up? Will this drive more MetaData (SemanticWeb / LiterateProgramming) for code? A step towards IntentionalProgramming? (Yes, see code-snippets story above)
Mind explaining how one goes about using this? – SebPaquet
: As far as I can see, at the moment it just seems to be like Google. You put in a search term and it finds source-code files that contain that term (constrained by language and license). Anything else you read on this page is just me speculating AFAIK – PhilJones
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