Exercises
Future development of Sherlock is at GitHub.[47] If you have a nice solution to any of the following problems, make a fork of Sherlock, and send me a pull request. There are a lot of ways the Sherlock program can be improved, and as you can see from the list, there a lot more things that could be done.
Finding Similarities Between Modules
Sherlock finds similarities between postings in the Erlang mailing list. Add a facility to compare the similarities of a large collection of Erlang modules.
Finding the History of a Module
As well as defining the similarity between modules, we can define the distance between two modules. Once we have found a set of similar modules, try to derive the history of the modules. Have the modules been ...
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