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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: grep vs. SEARCH (Was Re: Software Development Tools)
Message-ID: <2811@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 14:55:21 GMT
References: <3210@ae.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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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 ... C procedure definitions?

From article <3210@ae.sei.cmu.edu>, by rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito):
> ...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?

Amazing.  You managed to miss the point and demonstrate your callousness
at the same time.  Grow up, and listen up:

In any given environment, one may have occasion to search for strings which
do NOT correspond to entities directly supported by that environment.
When that occasion arises, you may want the power of a regular-expression
matcher.

=Ned Horvath=

Disclaimer: I don't speak for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.