[ntp:hackers] A possible roadmap for migration to isc eventlib

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Aug 13 22:16:35 UTC 2005


In message <42FE6A3E.7020905 at gis.net>, Danny Mayer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> [1] One of the possible benefits we can gain is that we can pick
>> up my "configkit" and rewamp the configuration system.
>> 
>> Configkit is a lex/yacc tool which takes a specification and builds
>> a data structure based on it.  The datastructure and some library
>> functions are compiled into the application.
>> 
>
>I hate lex/yacc and I have met the yacman who now works for Mathworks. 
>My first encounter with it was when I ported nslookup to VMS in the 
>mid-90's and had a hellish time dealing with it.

Well, lex and yacc is better than the alternative IMO, but apart from
that we agree.

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