[taeric]

I'm somewhat amused by the idea that this can be traced to a single tool. Cscope and simple ctags predate both by a long shot and were similar ideas. SLIME and SWANK were similar ideas that have also existed for a while, at this point.

Which is not to say that Yegge and others haven't created some nice things. They have. I tend to see it more that they succeeded at problems previous people had either failed at, or had a much more limited success. Progress is not always new things. Nor is similar effort always informed by each other.