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Flex is such a common name. Search for "flex" on the internet, and you'll find dozens of companies and products with the same name.
by jakobegger 10y ago
Flex is such a common name. Search for "flex" on the internet, and you'll find dozens of companies and products with the same name.
- krautsourced 10y agoflexlm also is one of the most common license management tools.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoYeah, but how many of them are involved in compiler development? I think this is in poor taste. I can't imagine that they're not trying to capitalize on flex's fame.
- thedaniel 10y agoThe name is a reference to Alan Kay's M.Sc thesis from 1968: https://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay68.html https://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay68.html
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoAlan Kay's Flex quickly became Smalltalk while Flex (the lexer) spent the last 30 years doing its thing under that name. It might not be deliberate but it's definitely confusing and they definitely should have realized it would clash within the compiler development namespace. It's like making an HTML parser and calling it Chrome.