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Re: `just' ... (byacc)

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Tue, 08 May 1990 13:28
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In article <6061@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>And it's Bob Corbett.  Not Bernie.

Auch... Sorry Bob !! [I am embarrassed.]

Sean also writes elsewhere:
>Berkeley Yacc is a rewrite.  From scratch.  It is not related to Bison
>except for the fact that the same author wrote them.

Bob gave me the impression that the two shared common ancestral code, but
after his latent changes, I guess byacc might as well be a re-write.

>Bison is not irrelevant as some of the features added to it are not in byacc
>(although it's not too difficult to get rid of these features in a grammar,
>from what I've seen).

Exactly. I would much rather get around those features than to have my
program captured by GPL because of the bison template.

oz
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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: `just' ... (byacc)
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Date: 8 May 90 13:28:04 GMT
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Posted: Tue May  8 14:28:04 1990