From: Matt Long <robothor@...>
Date: 2006-04-29T00:39:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Drops

Just had a thought...  Something similar _has_ been done before, but  
targeted at a different application.  Take a  look at services like  
MOSS <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html>, which was  
designed for plagiarism detection -- e.g. finding similar code across  
projects.  There is a nice paper linked that talks about how they go  
about doing it.

Matt


On 28 Apr , 2006, at 10:42 AM, Jake McArthur wrote:

> That exactly what I'm going for... something that nobody else  
> really wants to try. If nobody else will make something like this,  
> then I want to make it, or at least try; we would never reap the  
> benefits otherwise.
>
> What better chance is there for this than Summer of Code? It is the  
> kind of project everybody secretly really wants to have, but would  
> never realistically be able to find the time for it unless they  
> could do it as a kind of job, but who would pay for something this  
> risky? This is really the only way this could happen is if I  
> propose it for Summer of Code.
>
> - Jake McArthur
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Victor Shepelev wrote:
>
>> "It would be nice if somebody already done this, but
>> personally I would never even try"
>>
>> Victor.
>

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