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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/26
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In article <7v3u0f$nn6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  bourguet@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <7v30jd$3i6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > In article <7v2400$e02$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> > I find it appalling that people use such rusty tools as YACC
> > and AYACC, these are very limited tools which seem to completely
> > ignore the considerable advances in this area in the last 25
> > years!
>
> Could you post some references to books or web pages or good keywords
> to reduce the space search on the web. All books that I know off which

I'd like to third that request for references. I'm doing my thesis in
this area, so I'd like to be at least nominally informed on the subject.
:-)

But a web search on my part lead to only *one* alternative to lex/yacc.
I'd particularly like to know about what parts of lex and or yacc are
considered inadaquate or outdated.

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T.E.D.


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