Google Code Search



Google introduced a new custom search service, Code Search, that looks through source code that is available around the internet. It's an excellent resource for programmers looking for exiting examples of how to do things. It even supports restricting the search to a specific language like Objective-C, the language I work in on a daily basis at Apple.

Of course, I vainly searched for my own name and it returned (only!) three hits.

The first and second hits were for code in Sun's Java 2D SDK: A demo program that scrolls through the names of all the folks who helped develop Java 2D.

The third hit goes way back to April 1985. It's for an old VMS program, XMAC, that was used to transfer data between Macintoshes and Vax/VMS machines over serial connections. An old friend of mine, Kris Kreutzman, wrote XMAC and I posted this update for him on the old usenet group "net.sources.mac" along with some contact information. The posting was from one of my earliest email addresses: From: peirce@lll-crg.ARPA (Michael Peirce)




Posted: Wed - October 11, 2006 at 09:10 AM        

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