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Re: My plans for Bison: history
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: My plans for Bison: history |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:03:55 +0100 |
> Le 17 févr. 2019 à 12:28, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
>
>> Le 17 févr. 2019 à 12:25, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>> commit 93371999ee617644d56c82774b7af453cda05291
>> Author: Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed Feb 13 10:39:54 2019 -0500
>>
>> doc: a history section
>>
>> * bison.texi (A Brief History of the Greater Ungulates): New section.
>
> On top of it, I installed this:
>
> commit cbf213915cca529c95f56da2005075469f45af6a
> Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun Feb 17 12:20:40 2019 +0100
>
> doc: style changes
>
> * doc/bison.texi (Bibliography): Add [Corbett 1984] and [Johnson
> 1978].
> (History): Use them.
> And other minor changes.
and this.
commit 98020cedf779dfab193ddad949cd3d38b3ed002e
Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 20 06:33:43 2019 +0100
doc: fixes to please older versions of Texinfo
Currently, we have errors:
./doc/bison.texi:13005: node `History' lacks menu item for `Yacc'
despite being its Up target
* doc/bison.texi (History): Add the local menu.
While at it, add a few index entries.
diff --git a/doc/bison.texi b/doc/bison.texi
index 631f27e4..6cd59821 100644
--- a/doc/bison.texi
+++ b/doc/bison.texi
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ A Brief History of the Greater Ungulates
* yacchack:: An obscure early implementation of reentrancy
* Byacc:: Berkeley Yacc
* Bison:: This program
-* Other ungulates:: Similar programs
+* Other Ungulates:: Similar programs
Frequently Asked Questions
@@ -13007,6 +13007,14 @@ The exceptions thrown by user-supplied parser actions
and
@cindex history
@cindex ungulates
address@hidden
+* Yacc:: The original Yacc
+* yacchack:: An obscure early implementation of reentrancy
+* Byacc:: Berkeley Yacc
+* Bison:: This program
+* Other Ungulates:: Similar programs
address@hidden menu
+
@node Yacc
@section The ancestral Yacc
@@ -13043,6 +13051,7 @@ variants.
@node yacchack
@section yacchack
address@hidden yacchack
One of the deficiencies of original Yacc was its inability to produce
reentrant parsers. This was first remedied by a set of drop-in
@@ -13052,6 +13061,7 @@ became available a few years later.
@node Byacc
@section Berkeley Yacc
address@hidden byacc
Berkeley Yacc was originated in 1985 by Robert Corbett
(@pxref{Bibliography,,Corbett 1984}). It was originally named ``zoo'', but
@@ -13069,6 +13079,7 @@ Bison became available, byacc itself passed out of
general use.
@node Bison
@section Bison
address@hidden zoo
Robert Corbett actually wrote two (closely related) LALR parsers in 1985,
both using the DeRemer/Penello techniques. One was ``zoo'', the other was
@@ -13111,8 +13122,8 @@ ancestral Yacc or Byson.
Bison obsolesced all previous Yacc variants and workalikes generating C by
1995.
address@hidden Other ungulates
address@hidden Other ungulates
address@hidden Other Ungulates
address@hidden Other Ungulates
The Yacc concept has frequently been ported to other languages. Some of the
early ports are extinct along with the languages that hosted them; others
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, (continued)
- 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
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/15
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/17
- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/17
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- Re: My plans for Bison: history, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/17
Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/13
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/16
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Eric S. Raymond, 2019/02/16
- Re: My plans for Bison: reentrant and pure, Akim Demaille, 2019/02/17