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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: status of TeX (for randy hyde)
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Date: 13 May 91 15:41:32 GMT
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He also challenged me to port yacc or bison to ORCA/C, which I declined.
Ironically, just after that I discovered a port of bison to ORCA/C posted
on AOL.  (Hyde was implying that it would be hard to port applications
such as these.)
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Nothing ironic about it.  I knew about these ports.  They don't work too
well because of memory allocation problems on the GS (my understanding is
that the BISON program only handles small grammars).  As an experience
in porting it was probably fun, sorta like porting MINIX would be.  But as
a real product, I feel it falls short.  For now I just run FLEX and BISON
on my PC and port the emitted C code to the GS (which is probably a faster
approach anyway).
*** Randy Hyde
The fact that someone has done it doesn't mean it was easy...