From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/16
Date: 1998-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216154526.16866B-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887669672@merv
On 16 Feb 1998, Robert Dewar wrote:
> The question was about the difficulty of writing compilers. There are
> some things that are easier to optimize in Ada, and somethings that are
> harder (e.g. the result of separaqtely compiling subunits).
Sure, I was pursuing a more interesting (to me) line of questioning about
whether Ada allowed more optimizations in general than C++.
> As for C++ grammar being tricky, not really, parsing is a very small part
> of the problem (and relatively easy) in both cases, I don't see a difference
> here of any significance.
Agreed that parsing is "in the noise", but I think the difficulty of
writing a correct parser which handles all of C++ is well known. That's a
question which comes up on the compiler newsgroup frequently, and so far
I don't think there is a freely available or PD parser which handles
anything beyond ATT v2.x. Also, parsers are used in other source analysis
programs than compilers, so the ease of writing a parser for a language
has some impact on other tools.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-15 0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19 0:00 ` John English
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
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1998-02-18 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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