parsing madness [was: bogolexer.c]

[Bruce Korb]

> I hadn't heard of AutoGen or AutoOpts until now.  If they're related to 
> autoconf and automake, I'm sure they're wonderfully capable and have a 
> horrendous learning curve...

If you want to understand everything, yes, it would.
   http://autogen.sourceforge.net/compare.html
That's not the recommended approach tho:
   http://autogen.sourceforge.net/doc/autogen_1.html#SEC1