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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/26
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Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00
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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.

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org