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 When was flex born?
 ===================
 
 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 :-).
 

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