Muli Ben-Yehuda
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 23:36:26 -0700
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:37:54AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > 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. How many of you club members will find such a meeting interesting? Can I get a show of hands? I'd like to know if we should schedule it as a special meeting, or as one of our regular club meetings. Thanks. > > > 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. I grok them as well, although not well enough to use them proficiently, and I did read the dragon book (syscalltrack's filter parser required it). The point is not that we dont know how to use lex & yacc - the point is that we do not have the time to implement a working tool, again. We'd rather spend time improving the stability of the code (read: bug fixing) and adding new features. -- The ill-formed Orange Fails to satisfy the eye: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ Segmentation fault. http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]