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Comment The greatest feature ever! (Score 1) 454

by netmeta4 on Thursday May 08, 2008 @12:07PM (#23338752) Attached to: A Copyright Cop In Every Zune

This is the greatest thing I've ever heard of! If anyone can pull this off it's Microsoft. Imagine, your very own Copyright Cop in every Zune. The Zune will become the ultimate defense against the RIAA and MPAA. "Hey, It plays on my Zune. It must be legal!" Boy, I hope Microsoft releases this technology soon.

Tools For Understanding Code? 383

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 18, 2008 @12:35PM from the getting-it dept.

ewhac writes "Having just recently taken a new job, I find myself confronted with an enormous pile of existing, unfamiliar code written for a (somewhat) unfamiliar platform — and an implicit expectation that I'll grok it all Real Soon Now. Simply firing up an editor and reading through it has proven unequal to the task. I'm familiar with cscope, but it doesn't really seem to analyze program structure; it's just a very fancy 'grep' package with a rudimentary understanding of C syntax. A new-ish tool called ncc looks promising, as it appears to be based on an actual C/C++ parser, but the UI is clunky, and there doesn't appear to be any facility for integrating/communicating with an editor. What sorts of tools do you use for effectively analyzing and understanding a large code base?"

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