From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>, scj@yaccman.com
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of yacc
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 21:25:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVkjHX_h3S1YkQMieyZpx+bs69D0XFrbtRUN=_To6i=Dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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-planets.html.
Do the two acronyms share a common ancestor?
Doug
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2023-10-03 1:25 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2023-10-03 19:14 ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2023-10-03 19:42 ` Bakul Shah
2023-10-04 5:22 ` Wesley Parish
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