[TUHS] Re: Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share?

[Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 6:38 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> Interesting, no.  Fond memories, absolutely.  On SPARC machines with 4MB
> of ram, cscope was pretty essential if you wanted to get anything done.
> I used it a ton, made me way more productive.

That aspect of the culture remained and carried on to the descendents of Sun.
cscope is still very much used in the illumos project. In fact, I used
it yesterday (though not for illumos).

        - Dan C.


> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:16:31PM +0000, Marcus Clark wrote:
> >
> > Wikipedia has a brief page on cscope, which has a link  to
> > https://cscope.sourceforge.net/history.html
> > written by Harold Bamford, in which he talks about the
> > early days of cscope at Bell Labs and its inventor Joe Steffan.
> >
> > I wondered if anyone can add any interesting information about using
> > cscope on their projects or anything about its development.
> >
> > -Marcus.
>
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