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Re: bison
- To: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
- Subject: Re: bison
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:51:46 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: jpr at jpr dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
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
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