Your Coding Style Is Like A Digital Fingerprint

If you think that good code is a plain, expressionless and elegant string of characters that is, at its best, utterly anonymous, think again. New research suggests that programmers have ways of writing code, which can be used as a digital fingerprints.

Whether it’s how they space out code using spaces and tabs, naming conventions with capitals and underscores, or quirks in commenting, a team from Drexel University, the University of Maryland, the University of Goettingen, and Princeton can spot who wrote a piece of code-with alarming accuracy.Using natural language processing and machine learning to work out who
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