Advanced Bovine Depilation

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9 pointsmosburger4 comments

I'd be interested in a website where snippets of code from open source projects are posted and then dissected. Basically, it would let us crowdsource the discovery and cataloging of idioms and tricks (like the C function decorator trick he discovered).

On occasion I've seen Stackoverflow questions which led to this, and they usually led to some very insightful information.

Why not start such a site yourself? Even if you are unable to dive too deep, you can leave questions and people can answer.

OTOH, I think SO covers a lot of ground if you have questions. I also like the annotated source code movement in the JS community with annotated source codes available for many libraries. http://www.explainjs.com/ is helping people deep dive quickly.

I keep meaning to dive into the MRI source code but have never known where to start. I suppose I just need an excuse like the one the author had here and a little more motivation and a little more time. :-/

For anyone else that's about to fire up a search...

MRI: "Matz's Ruby Interpreter or Ruby MRI (also called CRuby) is the reference implementation of the Ruby programming language." (with thanks to Wikipedia).

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