Re: IRAF component relicensed
Scripsit Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:45:51AM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote
>> In this particular case, the modifications consist of changing the
>> output language from C to something else. That sounds fairly major;
>> the entire parsing engine would have been hand-translated to the new
>> language.
> It's probably not that hard.
I wasn't saying it was hard. "Major" is an orthogonal dimension.
> The manner in which a yacc-generated parser operates is not obvious
> to somebody who does not understand it, but it really isn't
> complicated.
That doesn't prevent replacing it (and the various constant-generating
parts of the generator proper) from being a relatively major change to
the parser generator.
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