Re: justify use of flex vs lex

jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:02:55 GMT

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From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Organization: U. C. Berkeley
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:02:55 GMT
References: 93-01-178
Keywords: flex, lex

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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