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[107.215.223.229]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g11-20020a1709026b4b00b001b89b1b99fasm1965832plt.243.2023.10.03.12.42.29 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:42:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <54A5F4A7-8EF0-4D07-A712-2FEA6DF2168D@iitbombay.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_754506FD-39E9-4710-92EC-5D654905E95E" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3774.100.2.1.4\)) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 12:42:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: To: Douglas McIlroy References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3774.100.2.1.4) Message-ID-Hash: SURBEII25HGAIEDVPGYLIGLKDXW6EGGM X-Message-ID-Hash: SURBEII25HGAIEDVPGYLIGLKDXW6EGGM X-MailFrom: bakul@iitbombay.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: TUHS main list X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: etymology of yacc List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --Apple-Mail=_754506FD-39E9-4710-92EC-5D654905E95E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 =46rom = https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534771/yacc--unix--and-advice-from-= -bell-labs-alumni-stephen-johnson.html What made you name your parser generator in the form of an acronym: Yet = Another Compiler Compiler? There were other Compiler-compilers in use at = Bell Labs, especially as part of the Multics project. I was familiar = with a version of McClure's TMG. When Jeff Ullman heard about my = program, he said in astonishment "Another compiler-compiler?". Thus the = name... > On Oct 2, 2023, at 6:25=E2=80=AFPM, Douglas McIlroy = wrote: >=20 > Steve, >=20 > Was Yacc an original coinage, or was it inspired by a similar acronym > for yet another whatever? The question is inspired by Yamoo, yet > another map of Orion, which is mentioned in today's NYT: > = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html.= > Do the two acronyms share a common ancestor? >=20 > Doug --Apple-Mail=_754506FD-39E9-4710-92EC-5D654905E95E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 From https://www.computerworld.com/article/253477= 1/yacc--unix--and-advice-from--bell-labs-alumni-stephen-johnson.html
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What = made you name your parser generator in the form of an acronym: Yet = Another Compiler Compiler? There were other Compiler-compilers in use at Bell Labs, = especially as part of the Multics project. I was familiar with a version = of McClure's TMG. When Jeff Ullman heard about my program, he said in = astonishment "Another compiler-compiler?". Thus the = name...

On Oct 2, 2023, at 6:25=E2=80=AFPM, Douglas McIlroy = <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

Steve,

Was Yacc an = original coinage, or was it inspired by a similar acronym
for yet = another whatever? The question is inspired by Yamoo, yet
another map = of Orion, which is mentioned in today's = NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-plane= ts.html.
Do the two acronyms share a common = ancestor?

Doug

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