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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4fd338e56f592cfb X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.160.65 with SMTP id m1mr5249184qax.2.1367416669516; Wed, 01 May 2013 06:57:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.96.67 with SMTP id dq3mr8579obb.30.1367416669490; Wed, 01 May 2013 06:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: ef9ni38601qab.0!nntp.google.com!s14no1644439qam.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 06:57:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <858v3yq3uj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: <85sj2aydwi.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <858v3yq3uj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <92df6e5e-4ecd-40e9-9ac0-433ee5fec20a@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: LALR parser question From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 13:57:49 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-05-01T06:57:49-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 6:31:00 AM UTC-6, Stephen Leake wrote: >=20 > It is mere hubris that you think you can do better totally on your own! He hasn't said anything about thinking he'll do better; just that he's doin= g something similar. One of the things about building off of the work of o= thers is that sometimes you miss out on the deep understanding -- another i= s that something that's "ok"/"good-enough" can stall out research in a part= icular area for a generation (this happened with PROLOG and the WAM).