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Google Unveils Code Search
derek_farn writes, "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)." From the Cnet.com article: "Google engineers, many of whom participate in open-source projects, already use these code searching capabilities internally. Since it is a Google Labs project, the company is not yet seeking to monetize searches through ads."
I would just like to burn a few karma to say that is the most disjointed, stream-of-consciousness summary I have seen in some time. There's one tiny little terse sentence announding the existence of the new search functionality, and somehow it manages do do so without even what kind of "code" we're talking about. Then the rants begin. The remainder of the paragraph has an average of one parenthetical remark per sentence, including two in a single sentence; and fully two-thirds of the rant is complaining about the lack of Cobol, of all things.
Phew, I feel better.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
This functional language is so interesting, there should be more talk about it.
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
Hahaha I was just about to post this. Fuck you!