alt Hacker NewsYacc is Yet Another Compiler Compiler, not Yet Another C Compiler. It's useful for writing compilers, not for compiling C.
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abetusk • last Friday at 2:10 AM
Yep, my mistake! And it makes a lot more sense.
Yacc is Yet Another Compiler Compiler, not Yet Another C Compiler. It's useful for writing compilers, not for compiling C.
Yep, my mistake! And it makes a lot more sense.
Especially since, IIRC, it actually predates C.