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From: andrew@hammer.UUCP
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Subject: The origin of yacc
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Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 19:32:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 19:32:16 1987
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	"It was my impression that there was a public domain yacc which
	was derived from the same source as the AT&T yacc--but not FROM
	the AT&T yacc."

Nope.  Yacc was created from scratch by Steve Johnson at Bell Labs,
back around 1975.  It was not derived from another work.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]