"Stop using yacc!" I am fascinated by this sentiment. I have seen it before in HN comments. This is almost as amusing as the "eradicate C" campaign. To check

"Stop using yacc!" I am fascinated by this sentiment. I have seen it before in HN comments. This is almost as amusing as the "eradicate C" campaign. To check whether this HN commentary has any basis in reality, I have been passively compiling a list of all the software I find that uses yacc or bison. I have been reassured of how prevalently it is used. Not only is it found throughout bases of popular UNIX distributions but it is also being used in third party programs, some of which are popular among HN readers. If you do not like yacc/bison and there are "better" tools available to you I cannot see why you would try to persuade others to stop using it. Strange. Based on my research so far, yacc/bison is still popular amongst programmers who actually write and distribute open source software. How popular it is amongst programmers who comment on HN is another matter. Perplexing.