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From: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich)
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Subject: 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.