"Documentation by paper"

[Russ Allbery]

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/>