Public Code Repositories?

dubious9 asks: "Today I was refactoring a parser of mine to use a better implementation of a string searching algorithm. I went to the internet trying to find a good code repository where I might have a chance to find an implementation of a good algorithm, but a cursory glance turned out no clear winners. SourceForge was the best that I could find. Where is the best online repository/library of common and reusable code snippets?" We've tackled this subject a once or twice over the years, is SourceForge really the best answer or are there other options?

Comments

Google

[DeadSea]

A general search of the internet is bound to turn up algorithms that some random develper has posted but which are in now code archive. Furthermore, individual sites with code repositories generally aren't as good at searching.

If your google search doesn't turn up any relavent hits, then going for the repositories might be a good idea, but which repository you turn to is likely to be language dependant. Depending on the subject matter you might even do well by picking up a book.

I know java best, so I'll give my favorite Java repository: The Giant Java Tree

Perl hackers will probably recommend CPAN

I'm sure you will get an different site from each developer on Slashdot.

Your might want to try..

[ewhenn]

www.planetsourcecode.com

Might be something there.

String match algorithm reference

[freshmkr]

Off topic, but you may find this resource useful:

http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/index.ht ml

--Tom

We should make our own!

[Webmonger]

We can make our own source code repository. Yeah, that's it. We'll call it codesource.org, and we can use MySQL and PHP to run it. Anyone know where I can find some source code to get started? :-)

Every algorithm ever written now under one roof

[Spudley]

Where is the best online repository/library of common and reusable code snippets?

The US Patent Office. :-/

boost.org

[blackcoot]

boost.org seems to have some pretty neat stuff; however, i've never used thier stuff...

fwiw (and moderately on topic), clr ("introduction to algorithms", but i suppose with the new edition that should be clrp...) has a boatload of string searching algorithms in it, including (i *think* -- i haven't flipped through much more than the graph section recently) the knuth-morris-pratt algorithm. i've generally found their pseudo-code to be reasonably readable (certainly more so than 90+% of the freely available code that i've tried to read).

Perl and Java...

[Xunker]

I'm a Perlie and since it opened I've found Perlmonks totally invaluable -- their Q/A section actually has questions that I would ask if wasn't so beyond asking for help.

On that thread, My java-esque friends tell me Java Junkies is equally good if you're of the Bean persuation.

Both sites are, in case you didn't guess, based on the Everything Content Engine which is why they look so much alike.