From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1be1b347b5b5ad43 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada) Date: 1999/10/26 Message-ID: <3815650F.A1D4BCD6@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 540674217 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3813716C.52655126@Maths.UniNe.CH> <7v2400$e02$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7v30jd$3i6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Universit=E9?= de =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neuch=E2tel?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -------- http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/