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He considered himself to be "adult supervision", and stepped aside as CEO when Larry Page demonstrated himself capable of leading the company without such supervision.

Not a genius, although you may have had occasion to use a recent incarnation of this utility.

I ungenerously assumed he might have been the guy who wrote the docs, but that was a bad assumption:

14. Acknowledgments.
As should be obvious from the above, the outside of Lex is patterned on Yacc and the inside on Aho's string matching routines. Therefore, both S. C. Johnson and A. V. Aho are really originators of much of Lex, as well as debuggers of it. Many thanks are due to both.

The code of the current version of Lex was designed, written, and debugged by Eric Schmidt.

I watched the debate between Schmidt and Thiel, and he came off as a reasonable, fairly sharp fellow, perhaps with some of the sharper parts rounded over by experience. With that kind of experience and his successful stint at Google, I'm unlikely to dismiss his insights out of hand. To do so would be to assume that my experience and insights are superior to his, and I have no basis to make such an assumption, and a fair degree of data to show that I probably ought to carefully scrutinize what he has to say before dismissing it. Teenage basement-dwellers, take note and mind the hubris.

Schmidt is remarkably technical for a CEO (former Sun CTO with a T) which is really rare.

Yes, he is.

Considering that Flexis a fast lexical scanner generator, I'd guess that Flex builder is a fast lexical scanner generator builder.

No language can replace C until it can compile its own compiler written in itself.

Espresso
- a Java compiler written in Java.

A list of compiler and compiler tools in Java -including parser generators like JavaCC

For those of you who do not know what YACC is all about

Its good to see something like this happening as ifconfig is not only used on FreeBSD but also on most (all?) Linux distros.

Ifconfig is just one of the many contributions the BSD projects have given to the Linux and UNIX community.

PS: To all those "bsd is dying" trolls, things like this show its not. Without the work of the BSD projects you wouldn't have some of the many tools you use each day.

there are window managers out there called "Yet another window manager" or "Yet another window manager2" ... It's just got to stop.