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Finding New Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trying-to-do-the-search dept.

tabandmountaindew writes "Too much time is wasted re-implementing code that someone else has already done, for the sole reason it's faster than finding the other code. Previous source code search engines, such as google codesearch and krugle, only considered individual files on their own, leading to poor quality results, making them only useful when the amount of time to re-implement was extremely high. According to a recent newsforge article a fledgling source-code search engine All The Code is aiming to change all of this. By looking at code, not just on its own, but also how it is used, it is able to return more relevant results. This seems like just what we need to unify the open-source community, leading to an actual common repository of unique code, and ending the cycle of unnecessary reimplementing."

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  1. reimplement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ill reimplement my balls into the mouth of bitches. payday friday

  2. GPL nightmare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah and be sued later because some asshole 'forgot' to put the license on it, then claim it comes from GPL and ask my whole project to be open because of his snippet ?
    Screw him, don't put your code in the open if you donc accept anyone to copy it without getting back to you. You are just polluting the net with unusable code.

    BSD rules !