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From: J. Clarke
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 03:21

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 02:32:54 -0000 (UTC), John Levine <jo...@taugh.com>
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>In article <slrnp9e76p.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid>,
>Jorgen Grahn  <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>>That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when
>>tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers,
>>vi/Emacs, troff ...
>
>I was writing C programs on Unix by late 1975 and I don't ever
>remember using a program to do variable crossrers.  Whatever
>it needed to do, grep was good enough, or the tag schemes later
>written for emacs and vi.
>
>Before that I did use the PDP-10 MACRO-10 cref program from time to
>time, even though we had text editors that had some sort of string
>search.

In any case, APL doesn't give you a nice convenient text file that you
can feed into some piece of GPLed code.  Nor is there a compiler.

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