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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ca464c92c72e0e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: Ada grammar Date: 2000/05/11 Message-ID: <3919D285.E046DC9F@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 621744444 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <07a73f60.478cecce@usw-ex0102-015.remarq.com> <8euivq$qso$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <004d942d.2e326cd2@usw-ex0104-026.remarq.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 957993795 203.35.118.1 (Thu, 11 May 2000 07:23:15 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:23:15 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ray Blaak wrote: > things are a lot more manageable if your > tool does not require an ASIS-compliant Ada compiler to be installed. Your > tool is more stand-alone and can work anywhere with a minimum of fuss (no > configuration issues to interface to a client's existing Ada compiler) if it > has minimal external dependencies. I can't see why they would have to use the clients compiler. Couldn't they just bundle gnat with their application? IMO, building a parser from the ground up, especially with lex/yacc, is plain silly.