Re: Has anyone hand-written a scanner/parser module?

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:32:57 -0500

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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Followup-To: alt.flame
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:32:57 -0500
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 08-11-061 08-11-085
Keywords: Pascal, Ada
Posted-Date: 23 Nov 2008 18:41:55 EST

"Charles E. Bortle, Jr." <charlesb.cca@mpowercom.net> writes:


> As to implementation language, I would still pick a Pascal-like
> language. (I know...That was then, This is Now ;-) (I exclude ADA,
> which just gutted and emasculated Pascal) and personally I don't care
> for C (or even C++).


The above comment about Ada seems strange to me. Ada is far more
powerful than Pascal (some would say "far more bloated"). But certainly
not "gutted and emasculated" compared to Pascal.


- Bob



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