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- Introduction
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- "Bison" is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a
- grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C
- program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you
- may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used
- in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.
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- Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc
- grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with
- Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You need to be
- fluent in C programming in order to use Bison.
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- Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett; Richard Stallman made
- it Yacc-compatible. This edition corresponds to version 1.24 of Bison.
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