[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC PATCH] init_techs

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:42:09PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:

> > > You know (f)lex and yacc/bison?
> > 
> > I don't, though I'm sure I could learn them.  Why?

lex is the standard Unix tool to parse input into tokens of varipous
types; yacc is the standard tool to parse structured constructs
consisting of such tokens; flex and bison are the GNU equivalents.

> You can easily define a small language which may be used to interface
> with the server. It can reduce the amount of parsing the "real"
> freeciv code has to do. It looks like some propose to implement
> something like this by hand.

As I said I don't know how portable lex is, and yacc may simply be
overkill.

>       Raimar

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