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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Re: yacc: public domain?
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> Re reverse engineering: a fairly detailed description of the Yacc state
> machine is given in at least one of the standard Yacc references -- see
> "man yacc" -- so the *algorithm* can hardly be called a trade secret.

	That's for sure!  The book "Principles of Compiler Design"
details lex and yacc throughly.  

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