Hi,

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 2:53 PM Tom Ehlert <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > One thing about coding style (it does not affect you - just something
> > that I noticed when reading code):
> > You have put your main() at the end. I want to get an overview of what
> > happens. I start scrolling down, but still reading from line 1. I want
> > to see main, but can't miss the stuff from line 1 to main(), so I read
> > and cant await to get to main(). Finally I am there - I want to know
> > what a function does, I have read it a few minutes before, but was
> > waiting for main, so nothing has been saved to my brain and I read code
> > again... :D
>
> most of us use the function 'find', or sometimes 'search' to locate
> the main() function. no need to read everything up to main() only to
> learn that the personal memorizing capacity was overloaded.
>

What about ctags and vi? More specifically, Exuberant Ctags (DJGPP build)
and VILE, JED, etc. (also DJGPP builds)? They work with several programming
languages, not just C or assembly.

And there are other tools that I'm not super familiar with like Cscope or
Global. Not to mention (POSIX?) cxref and cflow.

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