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Re: "Documentation by paper"
- From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:56:49 -0800
- Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
- Organization: The Eyrie
- References: <10402031630.AA22094@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> writes:
> Yes, but a *user* of bison is usually a compiler writer!
Er, no. Not even remotely. A user of bison is usually someone who has
something they want to parse that's representable by a simple grammar. I
would wager that the majority of uses of bison in practice are for parsing
configuration files.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>