There has been a bit of research on this[1]: > I qualitatively analyzed the top 50 clones in that list and was able to identify the source (or at least a sourc

There has been a bit of research on this[1]: > I qualitatively analyzed the top 50 clones in that list and was able to identify the source (or at least a source) of the snippets in most of the cases. [1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/375761/how-to-handle-code-clones-on-stack-overflow https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/375761/how-to-handl...