Friday, October 06, 2006

The Code Search and GAWK

The latest word on the wire is the release of yet another Google product (not to mention it searches) called Google Code Search.

Basically this a search engine specifically to search in the code snippets (full programs also for that matter). “Search public source code” goes the tagline. This may be of very great interest to the software industry as someone has said that 50 percent of the code we use today is the result “Ctrl+C” and “Ctrl+V” and then some modifications are done.

Anyway the code search will be definite boost for the open source community and the students alike. It will help students finish their project on time and allow the Open Source people to stop themselves from endlessly making copies of the same app.

Anyway today was a rather uneventful day. Spent the whole day downloading the material for Windows Exchange Server and IDE for Python (I’m a snake charmer now!).Seems that I am going to be an expert in the field of “GAWK”! I have the manual for GAWK and an implementation of GAWK for windows.

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