Re: My plans for Bison: history

[Eric S. Raymond]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> Thanks for writing all that. A quick review:
> 
> Some misspellings: "varuous", "decelop", "Berkely", "two LALR parses",
> "since .".
> 
> The text sometimes says "Yacc" and sometimes "YACC". Steven Johnson's
> original paper spelled it "Yacc"; let's go with that.
> 
> It'd be nice not to lose the info from Paul Rubin that the original Yacc
> "suffered from horrible kludges that Johnson had to perpetrate to make Yacc
> fit in a PDP-11".
> 
> Please add DOIs or stable URLs for citations. For Corbett:
> 
> https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a611756.pdf
> 
> For DeRemer & Pennello:
> 
> https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/69622.357187
> 
> For Johnson's "A Portable Compiler":
> 
> https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/512760.512771
> 
> For Johnson's "Yacc" documentation I cannot find a URL from Bell Labs, but I
> found this faithful rendition of the 7th Edition Unix version (which I
> checked against my circa-1979 printed copy):
> 
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf

Patch incorporating your suggestions enclosed.

Would any of your sources go far enough back to pin down Yacc's birth
year?  One of my old blog posts implies that I used to believe it was
1970. I don't remember believing any year but 1973, but if I ever had
a hard source for that I have long since lost the reference.
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