SWIM: Synthesizing What I Mean

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Great stuff from MSR! This particular "synthesizer" translates simple queries such as "generate md5 hash" into C# API calls. Wondering if there are any analagous projects targeting NLP code snippet generation for bash shell scripts?

An automated way to pull possible API calls from web/search engine resources.

The acronym in the title doesn't do it much service, since its the phrase that is popular in drug forums to make statements that aren't direct admittances of a crime (Someone Who Isn't Me, E.G: "SWIM just picked up an 8th of weed today").

I agree that the title isn't useful, but I decided not to paraphrase or editorialize myself per HN guidelines.

EDIT: not that the HN guidelines are entirely inflexible, but I don't think that the title is misleading enough to justify changing it.

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