From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: parsing tools, was What would early alternatives
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:11:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1tsEMx-00Mo5fC@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vqqoe9$2vd1$1@gal.iecc.com>
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At 12 Mar 2025 01:36:09 -0000, "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: parsing tools, was What would early alternatives
>
> Lex was a dog. Flex, which as far as I know was a complete rewrite
> that shared no code with lex, are not bad.
I've always understood the 'F' in Flex stood for "Fast". In fact it
says as much right in the title of the manual page (right from the first
post to Usenet):
flex - fast lexical analyzer generator
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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
2025-03-12 5:11 ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
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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