[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:
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>>
>> [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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