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From: "kevin  cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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On Mar 31, 8:18 am, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcha...@sover.net> wrote:
> As you can probably guess, I'm a big
> believer in extending a programming language with tools. It's too bad
> that building tools for C++ is such a big pain in the neck. C++'s nasty
> syntax, together with the preprocessor, are probably the worst things
> about the language because they inhibit tool building.

The preprocessor is no trouble at all, because it can be run
separately. But it's true that C and C++ are hard to parse with a LALR
grammar.

Building a full Ada parser from scratch is not easy either.  The
easiest way to write tools for either language is probably to build on
the GNU parsers.