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Lightning fast search simultaneously across multiple languages
(COBOL [IBM Enterprise and AS400], and as bonus,
JCL, PL/1, Natural, C#, Java, C++, C, Ada, PHP, Fortran, VB6, ...)
leveraging the language syntax of each to minimize false positive hits.

Programmers spend 50% of their time just looking at source code. When trying to understand how a system is organized, they often must look at and across many files that make up the system.

It is difficult to find code in large software systems of thousands of files coded in multiple programming languages. Often programmers use string search tools such as Unix grep or some IDE editor command. grep searches are not fast on thousands of files, and do not provide any easy way to see the resulting text. IDE searches are limited to at best the current project, not the entire source code base.

The Search Engine provides an interactive interface enabling one to search across a large source code base quickly, using the language structure of each of the languages providing far more precise answers than simple string searches can produce. For any query, the Search Engine offers a list of matches with surrounding context; the use can select a specific match and immediately inspect the source file.