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From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:22

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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> 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).
> 

Multics has a wonderful cross-reference of all symbols in the kernel.

-- 
Pete

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