Is there any site out there that is like UrbanDictionary or Online Etymology Dictionary, but for function names?
Oftentimes, I show up in a language or different programming paradigm and find myself encountering new function names, many of which may be completely divorced from the language and context in which they originated. Some like car and cdr are easy to discover, but others like summ, are more difficult to determine its origin and/or synonyms in the same or other languages/contexts.
I know RosettaCode gets close to this idea, but its goal is chrestomathy to demonstrate the same function in idiomatic code for each language and not disambiguation, synonyms and etymology.
It would be great to have a resource like this with an API, where you can set one or more target languages you are familiar with the same way you can look up words in OS X (usually double tapping on a word with three fingers if enabled).
