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From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's couch
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:40:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn2jwY+jdn6oH9p2VOWANgW90EVJBbCmG0D8KyAzVqwQhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <424dde98-7a42-57e6-e13a-83c3e6ccc020@dotat.at>

I wasn't very good at making jokes at the best of times, but I thought
the innate tabular nature of a yacc parser and the role of yyparse()
and the syntax yacc is written in would have got us there.  It was a
pale attempt at HUMOUR

As reddit says: <whoooosh>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-04 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-26  0:12 [TUHS] [tuhs] " Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-05-26  0:37 ` Rob Pike
2021-05-26  3:03   ` Larry McVoy
2021-05-26  4:02     ` Rob Pike
2021-05-26  6:20     ` Bakul Shah
2021-05-26  6:52       ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02  2:13         ` scj
2021-07-02  3:30           ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02  3:34             ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02  4:40               ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02  6:29                 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-02  7:00                   ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-02 17:17                     ` [TUHS] " Tony Finch
2021-07-04 23:40                       ` George Michaelson [this message]
2021-07-05  3:41                         ` Bakul Shah
2021-05-26  5:13   ` [TUHS] [tuhs] " arnold
2021-05-26  4:10 ` Avindra G

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