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Cscope

Cscope is a programming tool developed in the 1980s which uses a text-based user interface that allows computer programmers or software developers to search source code of the programming language C. It is often used on very large projects to aid code comprehension to find source code, functions, declarations, definitions, and regular expressions. As of 2000, cscope is free and released under a BSD license. The original developer of cscope is Joe Steffen.

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Article summary

Cscope is a programming tool developed in the 1980s which uses a text-based user interface that allows computer programmers or software developers to search source code of the programming language C. It is often used on very large projects to aid code comprehension to find source code, functions, declarations, definitions, and regular expressions. As of 2000, cscope is free and released under a BSD license. The original developer of cscope is Joe Steffen.

Key claims

  1. publication date: 2006 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. publication date: 2024 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "2006". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the publication date is "2024". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367405998

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.