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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:54:09 -0500
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?)
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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.