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That's awesome. Think about it, if we were able to extract the meaning (what it does and under which assumptions) of the algorithms on SO we could use them as a

That's awesome. Think about it, if we were able to extract the meaning (what it does and under which assumptions) of the algorithms on SO we could use them as an API. You declare "what you need" and which assumptions and you just made a call to an API to download the best, peer reviewed, code. Like something code as service.

gizmo686 14y ago
This is still a far way away from the program actually understanding the code to the point unnecessary for that. However, if I understand what you are describing, a simmalar system exists for Haskell (and possibly other languages)[1]. The idea behind hoogle is that you search for a type signature and get back functions with such a type. This idea probably would not work well for most languages, as it depends heavily on the strength of haskells type system. Also, hoogle only looks at standard libraries, but there is no reason we cannot use the same type system based search with SO. [1] http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/