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LEMON and That parse.y File in SQLite Source

I had really only took a cursory glimpse of SQLite's source, and I had always thought the parse.y file was a yacc/Bison parser source. I was wrong: It's the parser source for LEMON, the parser generator written by SQLite's author, D. Richard Hipp.

According to its web page:

SQLite is such an amazing example of source and tool self-reliance.