O'Reilly User Group Newsletter - Issue 09-06

[Dirk Koopman]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:46 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> On 17/10/06, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> forwarded:
> > > ***2.6 Million Lines of Code
> > > Announcing O'Reilly Code Search, where you can enter search terms to find relevant sample code from nearly 700 O'Reilly books. The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, comprises 2.6 million lines of code, all edited and ready to use.
> > > <http://labs.oreilly.com/code/>
> 
> Shock horror:
> http://labs.oreilly.com/search.xqy?t=code&q=kludge
> 

Hm... pretty poor quality of kludge available here. They obviously can't
kludge things properly themselves which may explain why they are writing
about it rather than showing us decent, worked, examples.

How are people supposed to learn?

Dirk