[TUHS] parsing tools, was What would early alternatives

[Greg A. Woods]

At 12 Mar 2025 01:36:09 -0000, "John Levine" <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: parsing tools, was What would early alternatives
>
> Lex was a dog. Flex, which as far as I know was a complete rewrite
> that shared no code with lex, are not bad.

I've always understood the 'F' in Flex stood for "Fast".  In fact it
says as much right in the title of the manual page (right from the first
post to Usenet):

	flex - fast lexical analyzer generator

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