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From: s0222353@moncol.monmouth.edu (DEAN RUNZEL)
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Subject: Re: A tool to count lines in Ada programs
Date: 24 Feb 1995 14:58:31 GMT
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Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: Phil's comment on "not everyone using Unix" is worth a response. Standard
: unix utilities are available on virtually *all* machines, so something like
: this wc suggestion is indeed pretty universal. If you don't have a basic
: set of unix compatible tools on your PC or whatever, you should get
: hold of them, they can certainly make life a little bit easier.

True, but the name of the group is comp.lang.ada not comp.os.unix. Now about
discussing solutions in Ada, I know of a very simple line counter that was
created by Rick Conn. It uses aflex and ayacc to build a lexical analyzer
and parser respectively. The tool is very customizable. I am part of a group
working to update this to Ada95 as part of our master's thesis. The project
will be completed in August. In addition, another group is working on a
domain specific kit for building Ada95 tools. I'll pass along the idea of
a line counter to them. For now, try searching the PAL for something
called Ada_parsing_tool. If you can't find it, e-mail me or Rick Conn and
I'll try to get a copy to you.

Later,
  Dean R. Runzel