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by vidarh 3192 days ago
Hilariously Chrome offers to pass the c code through Google Translate (with predictably useless results)
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ajnin 3192 days ago
Amusingly it detects that the code for the RPN calculator is in Polish. Maybe it's smarter than it seems.
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dannyw 3192 days ago
Language detection works on language trigrams, and are trained on human language. I bet punctuation is stripped during preprocessing. So it's not surprising that code will have false positives.
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vidarh 3192 days ago
Not surprising, but still funny when applied to obfuscated code.
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