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"Bison" is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar
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description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program
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to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may
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use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used
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in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.
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Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc
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grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar
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with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You
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need to be fluent in C programming in order to use Bison.
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