Re: `just' ... (byacc)

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 13:23

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In article <GUMBY.90May1051616@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM 
(David Vinayak Wallace) writes:

>You know, people keep bitching about how `trivial' these paltry lines
>are.  If they're so trivial then an incredible amount of bandwidth
>could have been saved had someone just sat down and written a PD
>replacement.

The roots of bison is in a thesis work by Bernie Corbett, and he
has made his work Public Domain under the name byacc (Berkeley Yacc)
since than. Bison is now mostly irrelevant.

>...  If it bothers you, perform a public service
>and write a replacement

There are those of us who do *exactly* that. 

oz

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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: `just' ... (byacc)
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Date: 4 May 90 13:23:18 GMT
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