From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/26
Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3815650F.A1D4BCD6@maths.unine.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v30jd$3i6$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar:
> I find it appalling that people use such rusty tools as YACC
> and AYACC, these are very limited tools which seem to completely
> ignore the considerable advances in this area in the last 25
> years!
The problem is that these tools are not time-bombed.
They don't tell simple users: "Sorry, but now I refuse
to run. Please download XYZ". E.g. I know almost nothing
about yacc / grounf / whatever, whether it's old or not etc.
Imagine a Fortran compiler saying after each compilation:
"You know what: you could save months of debugging if
you were programming in a language called Ada. Please
upgrade me !"
But I'm sure that ACT will at last react as tens of thousands
people migrate from Borland Pascal dialects to C++ and
provide a translator made with the modernest tools!
--
Gautier
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-24 0:00 Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada) Gautier
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Gautier [this message]
1999-10-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-10-27 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-10-26 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-26 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-27 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-10-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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