Re: Location revisited, column tracking...

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "W" == W L Estes <address@hidden> writes:

W> On Thursday, 25 July 2002,18:44 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> If your goal is to provide a stripped down service serving a niche,
>> indeed.  ``Professional'' use of Flex won't be able to use it then.

W> I'm not really concerned with "professional" use as such. flex
W> doesn't have commercial 24x7 support which will keep many
W> professionals away. 

I'm referring to people who write scanners for real world projects.

W> Our core users are people who write compilers, application
W> developers in various parts of the free software and open-source
W> camps and so on. 

I'm referring to them too.

W> And most of all, flex gets written because people like Vern Paxon
W> and John Millaway wanted something better and were willing to make
W> substantial efforts to get it there.

The misunderstanding keeps going on.  I'm sorry about this situation.