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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> PS: Why isn't there a Lex or Yacc FAQ?

Because they both have more than ample manuals in the 4.4 doc set?  I
dunno - I never really saw a need for FAQs, and I've written quite a
few parsers (including the entire parser for an ANSI C interpreter I
wrote a few years back).  It's very straight-forward to use both tools
if you understand the basics of parser operation, and if you don't
think you probably don't really need to use Lex and Yacc anyway. ;-)

					Jordan