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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Ada grammar
Date: 2000/05/30
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bradders <bradNObrSPAM@england.com.invalid> writes:

> Many thanks to everyone who replied and offered their advice.
> I've remained quiet up 'til now as a lot of information has been
> flying about and I'm trying to take it all in. The first point
> to make is that I have already written commercial parsers for C,
> C++, Java, Delphi and Powerbuilder so I know what I'm doing and
> Ada doesn't scare me ;-)(yet)

An Ada parser isn't all that hard.  It's probably easier than C (because
of the typedef problem), but harder than Pascal.  So long as you don't
need to do name resolution, that is -- just parsing.

- Bob