From: "John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
To: "Rich Salz" <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: parsing tools, was What would early alternatives
Date: 12 Mar 2025 12:35:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a0a29f1-9313-26f2-8cf2-7d32ef207108@taugh.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tr-ftcehn=HyWddh73Ao-sDaPj9XP33bCf8rYoPuMWx3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Rich Salz wrote:
>> Lex was a dog. Flex, which as far as I know was a complete rewrite
>> that shared no code with lex, are not bad.
> There was a Usenix presentation -- late 80's (Washington?) but I couldn't
> find it. -- by Vern Paxson about his rewrite called flex. I think he said
> that the main reason lex was slow was the clever folding it had to do of
> its internal tables to fit.
Maybe, maybe not just great programming.
It was mostly written by a summer student named Eric Schmidt. I wonder
what happened to him.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-12 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-10 2:03 [TUHS] Re: What would early alternatives to C have been? Douglas McIlroy
2025-03-10 2:28 ` Charles H. Sauer
2025-03-11 2:26 ` [TUHS] Re: uphill both ways, was " John Levine
2025-03-10 4:10 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2025-03-10 15:19 ` John Cowan
2025-03-10 19:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2025-03-10 20:49 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-03-10 23:12 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-03-10 23:49 ` Clem Cole
2025-03-10 23:58 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-03-11 0:06 ` Ken Thompson
2025-03-11 1:35 ` Larry McVoy
2025-03-11 5:07 ` Ken Thompson
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiW8J8=uFbadUTSaC9VcLGUJMFZaSFWOFDyCM3MpMTSayw@mail.gmail.com <CAMP=X_mchJuVgdpc4-AYHASwEVzUcJXMmqSDv_UvX6y0o0+LBQ@mail.gmail.com>
2025-03-12 1:36 ` [TUHS] Re: parsing tools, was What would early alternatives John Levine
2025-03-12 2:22 ` Rich Salz
2025-03-12 3:35 ` Larry McVoy
2025-03-12 16:35 ` John R Levine [this message]
2025-03-12 5:11 ` Greg A. Woods
2025-03-11 5:15 ` [TUHS] Re: What would early alternatives to C have been? John Cowan
2025-03-10 15:12 ` Clem Cole
2025-03-10 15:24 ` Dan Cross
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