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- From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Subject: Re: justify use of flex vs lex
- Reply-To: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:02:55 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-184@comp.compilers>
- References: <93-01-178@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: flex, lex
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- swl26@cas.org (Steve Layten x3451) writes:
- >I need to use flex instead of lex for a job I have ...
- >... our current "standards" seem to discourage use of public-domain code
- >in production, the standard managment argument being that we should use
- >vendor-supported code so we don't have to spend time maintaing the code
- >ourselves.
-
- It appears that both you and others at your company believe that the only
- two types of code in the world are vendor-supported and nonsupported.
- There is a third possibility: you can hire the services of a consultant or
- firm that specializes in supporting freely redistributable software. This
- frees you from the necessity of supporting the code yourselves.
-
- Cygnus Support is probably the best-known firm that does this kind of
- work; there are others as well.
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- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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