How Mainstream Can Code Scavenging Go? 139
The time-honored tradition of code scavanging has long been a way for new programmers to "break in" to a new language or task that they may not want to build from the ground up. The re-use of old code, cleaned up and tweaked to a new purpose can help developers learn many useful skills and accomplish tasks quickly, especially for small tasks that aren't of vital importance. One blogger wondered if this process could be formalized and tools could be built to help foster and enable code scavanging on a mass level. Is this a viable option, or are there just too many things to consider?
code repositories (Score:3, Informative)
we scavenge code online w/e, find it needs to be used by a lot of people
so we inherit the scavenged and put it in a nice module and tada!
this is nothing new
semi-formalized (Score:5, Informative)
Google Code (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Google Code (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.google.com/codesearch [google.com]
Microsoft Popfly? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.popfly.ms/Overview/ [popfly.ms]
The reuse of old code... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:This reminds me of another book ... (Score:3, Informative)