Bill Baxter wrote

> code.google.com now has a d-mode

That's interesting: how do they filter D-code embedded in html?

-manfred

Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote
> 
>> code.google.com now has a d-mode
> 
> That's interesting: how do they filter D-code embedded in html?
> 

I have no idea, but you could imagine a search algorithm that looks for a combination of keywords or patterns that are peculiar to a given language.  For example if you see "foreach(* ; *)" it's a pretty good indicator you're looking at D code.  Not many languages have "foreach" followed by a semicolon in the following parentheses.

I could imagine you could even automate the process of finding such characteristic patterns by throwing a mass of known D code at some sort of learning algorithm.

But I don't know what Google actually does.

--bb