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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:31

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On 2018-03-01, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

> 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.

I guess once we went from paper listings to screens, good editors,
and grep, the need for cross-reference listings faded.  I used to be a
cross-reference fanatic; I wrote utilities that would cross-reference
JCL libraries (jobs using a given program, file name, or DDname), and
source libraries (modules using a given macro or DDname).

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