"compile" vs. "tokenize" (was Re: Password Problem)

[Kenneth Brody]

Bill Vermillion wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:36:14AM -0400, Fairlight thus spoke:
> > With neither thought nor caution, Bill Vermillion blurted:
> 
> > > Then there is the classic 'yacc' Yet Another Compiler Compiler -
> > > even though it really is a parser generator and that generates some
> > > of the most obnoxious looking C code you'll ever want to look at.
> 
> > You've obviously never looked at perlcc's output.  :)
> 
> Have you looked at yacc?
[...]

Not for many years.

When first designing fPSQL, I looked into using lex/yacc to handle the
parsing.  Early on, it became apparent that this was not a solution,
when it starting building state tables larger than 64K, with only some
of the syntax defined.  (This was back in the days when 16-bit systems
were limited to 64K chunks of data.)

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