Short consulting gig (programming with BISON/Flex)

[Dov Grobgeld]

Another issue is that if you today need to write a parser in lex/yacc, then
you probably made a bad decision along the way. There are today lots of
well supported meta formats with excellent and well tested parsers, e.g.
json, xml, yaml, config/ini, and your ROI is better spent integrating one
of these than reinventing the wheel.

(That said from someone who invented a meta format (and used lex/yacc)
which I used for a number of years until I switched to using json. See:
http://xnm.sourceforge.net/ .)

Regards,
Dov

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Eli Marmor <eli at netmask.it> wrote:

> I see that the thread is still alive, so just wanted to say that it's a
> de-ja-vu for me.
> I've used to be a LEX/YACC master somewhere in the previous century (i.e.
> the previous millennium...).
> I not only used it for writing compilers, interpreters and parsers, but
> also built a cool library based on LEX, as well as my own LEX version to
> support 8 bit (it supported only 7 bits in the beginning...).
>
> I guess that it will not help anybody today, because many years have
> passed, and I probably don't remember enough...
> But it's nostalgic to remember these years...
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Aviram Jenik <aviram at jenik.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're looking for a consultant that can help us with a short gig to
>> figure out why
>> a piece of BISON/Flex code (used to render code into an interpreter)
>> compiles under Debian 7 but not under Debian 9.
>>
>> The error is pretty vague so I rather not paste it here as it doesn't
>> actually helps anyone who hasn't seen the full code.
>>
>> Any referrals would be appreciated; we're in Ra'anana industrial area.
>>
>> - Aviram
>>
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