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Re: My plans for Bison: history
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: My plans for Bison: history |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:43:55 -0500 |
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Akim Demaille <address@hidden>:
> Eric,
>
> > Le 12 févr. 2019 à 18:34, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> a écrit :
> >
> > 1. I'm working on a new section for the Bison manual called "A Brief History
> > of the Greater Ungulates". It summarizes the history of and differences
> > among yacc, byacc, zoo, my own obscure yacchack mod, and bison.
> >
> > I had friendly contact with Steve Johnson while working on "The Art of
> > Unix Programming". I've sent him email asking for specifics on the
> > birth year and language of YACC. I think it was 1973 and B, but web
> > sources are vague and inconclusive and the papers are not dated.
> >
> > I expect to have a first version of the history section ready to ship
> > sometime today.
>
> This would be wonderful! Amusingly, I have been trying to reach
> Robert Corbett since a couple of weeks, but so far, to no avail.
> I managed to track him from Sun to Oracle, but his email there no
> longer work. His PhD advisor told me he has retired, but she does
> not know any more recent address.
Here you go.
If scj gets back to me I will add more.
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- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Paul Eggert, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Paul Eggert, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/14
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/14
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/14
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/14
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/15