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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/27
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In article <7v5ns8$2h1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

> I think the parsing algorithm is less of an issue than error
> recovery, the error recovery of YACC is pathetic. It is

Ahh, well *that* I knew. How could I not? I've used yacc. :-)

> surprising what can be done with automatic generators in
> this area. See some of the papers from Fisher and Charles from
> the early days of the NYU Ada/Ed project. Many commercial Ada/83
> compilers made use of this work, and the syntactic error
> recovery of Ada/Ed was really quite good (not as good as GNAT,

Hmm. I'll have to go hunting for that.

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