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by jtwb 5398 days ago
Using (input channel, output channel, title) to summarize Recipes makes code search a breeze.

Traditionally, code search is done via fulltext indexing of verbose textual function descriptions. ifttt succeeds in using a channel-signature model, not unlike Hoogle's type-signature search, to provide code search without asking authors to write any description at all. Very nice!

http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%28a+-%3E+b%29+-%3E+a+...