Hi Eric, This is a fantastic piece of doc! Thanks for the effort!
> Le 14 févr. 2019 à 02:51, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Patch incorporating your suggestions enclosed. Could you please submit it as a patch proposal (with git show to get the commit header). Also: - begame => became - the sources old versions of Unix => the sources of old... - we tend to use reentrant rather than re-entrant. In fact, a few hyphens have been removed in the last years (e.g., lookahead instead of look-ahead). - "Robert Corbett actually wrote two LALR parsers in 1985" I think this is an overstatement (over-statement? ;-). I have wandered in the sources of Bison for a long time now, but when I look at byacc, I feel at home: I clearly recognize the sources. I think the differences between the initial versions of byacc and bison must have been very narrow... - "The main difference between Yacc and Byson/Bison is that Bison supports the @@N construction (giving access to" That should be "was": today there are many more differences. You list some of them after, but there are more than this. For instance, %define opens a host of configuration options. FTR, I have been lucky enough to have met Mike Lesk --- I was an intern a few meter away from his office. And also Stu Feldman. Aho was the boss then, but I never met him :( Cheers!
