From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/26
Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v32oe$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v30jd$3i6$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:36:45 GMT, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>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!
A better recommendation is . . .
>Automatic lexical analyzers are almost completely useless
>in a compiler context.
Blanket claims without evidence or explanation are also almost
completely useless.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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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
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-10-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-10-27 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-10-26 0:00 ` David Starner [this message]
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 ` 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
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-26 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
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