From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr>
Cc: jpr@jpr.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bison
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007301148220.86680-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007292256.AAA30682@quatramaran.ens.fr>
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Marc Espie wrote:
> Actually, the only language that requires bison is java (pure parser).
>
> C, C++ and objective C are usually happy with byacc [...]
Isn't that a bug in the Java frontend then (that should be fixed)?
Someone I highly respect when it comes to portability recently wrote
| But for robustness, as soon as you get trapped into having one single
| reference implementation, and dismiss everything else [...], then
| you're in trouble...
and I couldn't agree more when it comes to tools like yacc/bison.
Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-30 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-28 13:15 bison Jean-Pierre Radley
2000-07-28 13:46 ` bison Mark Mitchell
2000-07-29 15:56 ` bison Marc Espie
2000-07-30 2:52 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2000-07-30 3:20 ` bison Marc Espie
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