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From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: Marcus Clark <marcus.e.clark@outlook.com>, TUHS <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share?
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 10:35:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zg85MaFFx69SJMdW@hydra.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240404223828.GD2235@mcvoy.com>

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On Thursday,  4 April 2024 at 15:38:28 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:16:31PM +0000, Marcus Clark wrote:
>>
>> I wondered if anyone can add any interesting information about using
>> cscope on their projects or anything about its development.
>
> 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.

Agreed.  It was an essential tool when I was developing code.  It just
seems funny to be asked about "memories" or "interesting".  At an only
slightly different level, it would be like asking the same question
about, say, sh.

Greg
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-04 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-04 21:16 [TUHS] " Marcus Clark
2024-04-04 22:38 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2024-04-04 22:41   ` Dan Cross
2024-04-04 23:35   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2024-04-05  1:37     ` Dave Horsfall
2024-04-05  2:07       ` Larry McVoy
2024-04-05  3:54         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-04-05  4:03           ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-04-07 21:39           ` Dave Horsfall
2024-04-05  1:38 ` Noel Hunt
2024-04-05 10:11   ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-04-05 20:46     ` Noel Hunt
2024-04-05  6:48 ` Brad Spencer
2024-04-06  5:48 ` Kevin Bowling

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