Searching for Program Source Code
Students at the University of California Irvine are working on some new technology for understanding and categorizing source code. They’re using it to power two projects, a source code visualization tool and a source code search engine. You can check it out at: sourcerer.ics.uci.edu - They’re just getting started, but click on the submenu items under the “Fingerprints†tab to get an idea of the heuristics they’re looking into (control structures, attributes, and micro-patterns).
In the mean time, us mere mortals will have to be satisfied with the current offerings of source code search engines. Just to name a few:
www.google.com/codesearch - 46 languages
www.koders.com - 32 languages
www.codase.com - C, C++, and Java
www.krugle.com - 39 languages
labs.oreilly.com/code - source code examples from nearly 700 O’Reilly books
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