Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: comp.lang. ...yacc? Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 90 08:34:00 GMT References: <7179@arcturus> <1990Feb9.171557.18465@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com> <647@mwtech.UUCP> <751@s5.Morgan.COM> <-4-1HWExds13@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@math.lsa.umich.edu Followup-To: news.groups Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 28 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 26 Feb 90 15:34:30 GMT In article <-4-1HWExds13@ficc.uu.net>, Peter da Silva notes the potential utility of a comp.lang.yacc, for discussion of things like yacc (and byacc and bison and antlr) and things that go good with yacc (like lex and flex). In a rough count I pick 58 possibly relevant articles from the 468 in my comp.lang.c spool. (I'm looking for "yacc", "bison", or "lex".) In article <22529@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: >(Incidentally, this is another thing that does not really belong in >comp.lang.c, but in this case there *is* no appropriate group, so I >have not attempted to redirect followups....) Another group which would seem to have reasonable overlap is comp.compilers, is comp.compilers, where I count 4 of 22 articles. comp.lang.c++ has 30 of 164, some of which may be x-posts. Based just on traffic, there's certainly a market for a group. If Chris can't find an appropriate group to redirect a yacc posting to, it must not exist.... Consider the call for discussion started, with the working title 'comp.lang.yacc', with the understanding that the scope of the charter encompasses more than just yacc. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept.