[SCC_Active_Members] Source Code Searching

[Randall Neff]

from: H.M. Gladne
" As far as we know, no-one in the world has created subroutines to
extract useful search indices from program collections.  Doing this
well might be a nontrivial challenge.  I hope to find volunteers to
help tackle it, starting with obvious heuristics.  (If we can invent
useful algorithms, programming them as GSDL plugins will be neither
difficult nor laborious.)"



There are a number of startups and Google that have source code searching
capabilities, usually on open source software:


www.koders.com
www.krugle.com
www.codase.com
www.allthecode.com
www.google.com/codesearch

The problem is that they are based on just strings in the source
(including comments),
and nothing on higher level structure.  So if I look for 'graphic
editor", the search returns
classes and java packages named "graphicEidtor" "grahic_Editor", etc, and
not a collection of classes or a complete program that would comprise an editor.


Randall Neff,