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From: "William K. Josephson" <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Composition of regexps (Was re: [9fans] regular expressions in plan9 different from the ones in unix?)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:54:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223065409.GC22337@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <224a39ebca9aaa0370eb804cd59e6aac@plan9.jp>

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:27:56AM -0500, Joel Salomon wrote:
> Would such a project be a worthwhile spent of time?  (Might it develop
> into the asteroid to kill the dinosaur waiting for it?)

Why go to the trouble?  For C, the lexer is easy
enough to just write by hand.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-22 22:16 [9fans] regular expressions in plan9 different from the ones in unix? (at least linux) Folkert van Heusden
2007-02-22 23:17 ` Alberto Cortés
2007-02-22 23:21 ` William Josephson
2007-02-22 23:48   ` Russ Cox
2007-02-23  6:27     ` Composition of regexps (Was re: [9fans] regular expressions in plan9 different from the ones in unix?) Joel Salomon
2007-02-23  6:54       ` William K. Josephson [this message]
2007-02-23 13:34         ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-02-23 17:33       ` Russ Cox
2007-02-23 11:19     ` [9fans] regular expressions in plan9 different from the ones in unix? (at least linux) Gorka Guardiola
2007-02-23 12:12       ` erik quanstrom
2007-02-23 12:17         ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-02-23 13:02           ` erik quanstrom

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