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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 01:48:58AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> CSSC is the GNU project's reimplimentation of SCCS, to which, I believe,
> Larry contributed.

Only in some very minor ways, the author and I chatted and I cleared up
some of his thinking.  With all due respect to him, I wasn't impressed
with the source base, it was C++ (I think) and slow (I know).