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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion

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To: Tech Master who wrote (10914)4/11/1998 10:02:00 AM
From: David Eddy  Read Replies (1) of 13949
 
Tech Master -

Writing code scanners is trivial....

Entirely correct. Anyone with a $29.95 word processor has a scanner.

Just to split hairs here... the hairy work gets done via parsing which a process that makes an attempt at 'understanding' the context of the code being read.

Industrial strength parsing is non-trivial work. There aren't more than a handful of good tools for it. Much of the bleeding edge parsing work in recent times has gone into academic oriented Unix based tools... which for Y2K work is like hunting blue whales with a BB gun.

- David
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