Re: bison/yacc

> [Decus yacc was a pirate version of AT&T yacc that Decus (the DEC users'
> group) distributed for a while until they realized what it was. I know of
> no PD version of yacc and would be surprised to hear of one considering how
> much work is involved; every allegedly PD yacc I've ever seen has turned out
> to be a pirate copy of AT&T yacc. ... -John]


I don't know if this is approriate, but it does sort-of wrap up the issue.
A definitely non-AT&T, non-FSF version of yacc was posted to the minix
newsgroup earlier this summer. I have self-compiled the parser, and it
seems to be about on a par (size, speed, etc.) with the AT&T and FSF
parser generators. The author mentioned that it runs rather slowly, but
with a reasonable disk cache, I don't see any significant difference in
speed (no more than perhaps 2-1), and the code is reputed to have run on
a Z80 system at one time!


Charles Marslett
chasm@attctc.dallas.tx.us

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