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[John R Levine]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Rich Salz wrote:
>> Lex was a dog. Flex, which as far as I know was a complete rewrite
>> that shared no code with lex, are not bad.
> There was a Usenix presentation -- late 80's (Washington?) but I couldn't
> find it. -- by Vern Paxson about his rewrite called flex. I think he said
> that the main reason lex was slow was the clever folding it had to do of
> its internal tables to fit.

Maybe, maybe not just great programming.

It was mostly written by a summer student named Eric Schmidt.  I wonder 
what happened to him.

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