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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: grep vs. SEARCH (Was Re: Software Development Tools)
Message-ID: <3210@ae.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 02:40:03 GMT
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Reply-To: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <2797@titan.camcon.co.uk> igp@camcon.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:

>How do you tell SEARCH to search for the equivalent of
> [line deleted]
>which locates (sanely laid out) C procedure definitions?

This is getting a bit out of hand.  Software engineering inplies a different
way of thinking about code and procedures.  Without getting into the the
question of whether one even tries to engineer software in "C", why would
your software be so disorganized that you'd even need to do such a thing?
Why do you accept a development platform that requires such tools?

It's asking the masons to make the bricks from mud and straw at the job
site, like the old days.

Rich

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Ideas have consequences.                                    RSD@sei.cmu.edu
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