Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: yacc stack overflow Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 16:48:48 GMT References: <1991Mar13.012932.1710@NCoast.ORG> <125497@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Mar20.005444.27907@NCoast.ORG> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Followup-To: comp.lang.perl Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 22 In-reply-to: allbery@NCoast.ORG's message of 20 Mar 91 00:54:44 GMT In article <1991Mar20.005444.27907@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: | As quoted from <125497@uunet.UU.NET> by rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim): | +--------------- | | Of course. I'm surprised that someone who's been around as long as you | | have would even ask. It's done all the time. | +--------------- | | "Done all the time" != "okay to do". Look at how long the yacc and lex | sources were on the DECUS tapes.... | | And AT&T is being extraordinarily obtuse of late. (Cf. the nonsense about the | "backing store" patent.) However, they did explictly state in writting that as of System V.3, the output of yacc and lex did not require a UNIX license to run the resulting program.... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?