17 May
2020
17 May
'20
8:07 a.m.
Brantley Coile <brantley(a)coraid.com> wrote on Sun, 17 May 2020 01:36:16 +0000:
> It looks like only grap and pic have mkfiles that
invoke lex.
Both of those are Brian Kernighan's work, and from the FIXES file
in his nawk, I can offer this quote:
> ...
> Aug 9, 1997:
> somewhat regretfully, replaced the ancient lex-based lexical
> analyzer with one written in C. it's longer, generates less code,
> and more portable; the old one depended too much on mysterious
> properties of lex that were not preserved in other environments.
> in theory these recognize the same language.
> ...
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