Shlomi Fish
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:20:45 -0700
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:30:18PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > I'm not trying to sell them. I want to have a meeting where I can finally
> > get some questions about SCT answered face to face, and we discuss it. I
> > suggested that I teach Lex and Yacc, using Perl as a tool to teach them,
> > to fill some of the time and do something useful with myself. And it's a
> > demo not a lecture.
>
> If you put it that way - sounds great! Do you want to schedule it as
> part of the next meeting, or as a special meeting? either way, I'm
> game.
>
I'd like it to be a dedicated meeting.
> > I'm not going to fill a two hour lecture explaining a technical tool such
> > as Lex and Yacc. O'Reilly can fill a book about those two, but I have more
> > exciting things to do. I just see it as an absurd thing that the SCT
> > configurator is still not written using Lex and Yacc and that those tools
> > can make it so much simpler and easier to understand.
>
> "If you build it, they will come"
> If you send us a patch, we'll apply it in a jiffie.
>
OK. But my incenitive for giving a demo is also to make sure people learn
Lex and Yacc and how easy it is to use them. You don't really have to read
the Dragon book in order to use them. I know I grokked them, with only
having an intuitive conception of it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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