Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners

saccade.com writes, "The new Google Code Search isn't just for hackers sniffing for passwords. Jason Kottke and friends have discovered the new feature reveals all sorts of dark corners hidden in our code. And you thought nobody ever read your comments!" From the article: "Code search is a great resource for web developers and programmers, but like the making available of all previously unsearched bodies of information, it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners."

Comments

Dark corners?

[FlyByPC]

"it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners."

They say sunshine is the best disinfectant. More eyeballs can fix problems as well as exploit them.

Re:It's not surprising that PHP is the leader.

[Andrew Kismet]

That and PHP is used for a lot of bulletin boards, forums, etc - the majority of those "fuck" counts would be on swearlist fliters hardcoded in.

Goto isn't necessary evil (at least in C)

[rbarreira]

Goto in C isn't necessarily evil... I've used it quite a lot of times to break from nested loops (like a "break", but a double/triple/... break, which doesn't exist in C but exists in Java for example).

Re:Your signature that very much is a signature

[Speare]

I think you mean Magritte's "The Treason of Images" which has a label reading "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" under a picture of a tobacco pipe. Not sure where the apple came from...

This could affect future job applicants

[dptalia]

Just think - currently most large employers google an employee as well as checking the major social networking sites, to determine if there's something about the person they don't want. Now an employer could use google code search to measure an applicant's code writing ability/discression.