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From: Dave Garland
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:48

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On 3/5/2018 10:54 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-03-05, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> 
>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> As a total amteur learning C on CP/M, I became vexed with multi-file
>> programs -- my own and others' -- and wrote an xref utility.  Its ad
>> hoc parser was a little feeble, didn't handle well typedefs or
>> gratuitous pointers to functions but it untangled intractable messes
>> for me and was, besides, itself a great learning project.
> 
> One of the first C programs I wrote (and still use from time to time)
> checks for unbalanced braces, parentheses, and brackets.  I wrote it
> to track down syntax errors in the program I was really working on.

Heh. I wrote something like that in Turbo Pascal to check text for 
things like unbalanced parens, doubled words, and other non-spelling 
typographic errors, back when the only writing aid for CP/M WordStar 
was a spell checker. I think as many as 15 people may have bought 
copies of it.

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