12 Mar
2025
12 Mar
'25
4:35 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Rich Salz wrote:
Maybe, maybe not just great programming.
It was mostly written by a summer student named Eric Schmidt. I wonder
what happened to him.
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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.