(flex.info)When was flex born?

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When was flex born?
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Vern Paxson took over the 'Software Tools' lex project from Jef
Poskanzer in 1982.  At that point it was written in Ratfor.  Around 1987
or so, Paxson translated it into C, and a legend was born :-).