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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:05:04 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: USE_BISON
Message-ID:  <20000122170504.B88213@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000120190220.jdp@polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:02:20PM -0800
References:  <200001210150.RAA60802@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <XFMail.000120190220.jdp@polstra.com>

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:02:20PM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
> I'm looking into making the modula-3-lib port use byacc, but I'm
> not sure yet whether it'll work.
> 
> But is it really worth it?  If the right tool is available then it
> seems better to use it rather than add special patches to a bunch of
> ports.

Byacc *is* the right tool.  The problem is most people today misspell
`yacc' as `bison'.  98% of the uses of `bison' would work just fine if
the author used `yacc'.  The problem is "All the World's Linux".  I
really wish the Linux vendors would add a link from bison to yacc.  Then
we probably wouldn't have most of the problems.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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