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From: djones@megatest.uucp (Dave Jones)
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Subject: Re: Name that PD parser generator
Message-ID: <1989Sep11.015824.1006@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 11 Sep 89 01:58:24 GMT
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>From article <1989Sep6.152554.318@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>, by corbett@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Corbett):
> 
>      I have been asked to come up with another name for Zoo, since there is
> apparently an archiver named Zoo.
>

I've just finished a yacc-lookalike.  I might have been able to use
Zoo, but when I started this one Sunday, I hadn't read about Zoo
yet. Well, there were some other reasons I wanted to do one from scratch,
besides the copyrights on other ones. For one thing, I wanted LR(1), not
LALR(1).

Anyhow, I too am puzzling over a name.

I used "Molly McYacc" as a working title. But I think I'm going to
go with "jaccl", sort of following through on the wild mammal motif.
It stands for "just another compiler-compiler lookalike".

Either that, or perhaps Mr. Corrbet will allow me to use the second best
name he receives. How about it, Robert? May I see the name list, after
you've picked over it?
[From djones@megatest.uucp (Dave Jones)]
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