12 Mar
2025
12 Mar
'25
5:11 a.m.
At 12 Mar 2025 01:36:09 -0000, "John Levine" <johnl(a)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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