On 04/21/2010 02:38 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
> Okay... let me get this straight:
>
> I started grepping
> but I wasn't quite grokking
> and now I'm performing static analysis
> next I'll be producing valuable results
> ....wait a second ...at this rate I'll be doing power points in a 
> matter of days... that's the wrong direction!
>
> I'll have to be careful not to become too effective at this.
>

I heard the term "static analysis" from a compiler writer who had never 
created a PowerPoint, or even used MS Excel in his entire life. That 
tells me that using the term "static analysis" is a step in the right 
direction, not a step into management. :)

Tools that operate on source code, without compiling and running it, fit 
into that category, so in a sense, grep is a static analysis tool. So is 
cscope.

Have fun hacking.

--Dave
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