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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to
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Date: 1998/02/17
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On 17 Feb 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> > ... on the non-availability of free C++ (version>3.0) parsers ...
> 
> Both the g++ 2.8.0 parser (which is bison based) and the parser used on the
> TenDRA system (which is build around a home-grown parser generator) 
> parse reasonable recent C++ and are freely available.
> 
> -Andi

I sit corrected. Note that the g++ 2.8.0 parser is parsing "GNU C++",
which means it *may* have problems working with the AT&T line, or some of
the recent Draft ISO versions. As noted in another thread, it will be a
while before C++ is really standardized.

-- Brian