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      QUESTION:
      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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