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==History== Flex was written in [[C (programming language)|C]] around 1987<ref name=releasehistorypage9 /> by [[Vern Paxson]], with the help of many ideas and much inspiration from [[Van Jacobson]]. Original version by [[Jef Poskanzer]]. The fast table representation is a partial implementation of a design done by Van Jacobson. The implementation was done by Kevin Gong and Vern Paxson.<ref name="flexman">{{cite web |title=Flex, version 2.5 A fast scanner generator Edition 2.5, March 1995 |url=https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/c/software/flex/flex_toc.html#TOC25 |access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>
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