Re: Java compiler courses

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
26 Apr 2007 09:43:38 -0400

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 26 Apr 2007 09:43:38 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 07-04-07407-04-082 07-04-099
Keywords: courses, Java
Posted-Date: 26 Apr 2007 09:43:38 EDT

wooks wrote:
(snip)


> For the reasons I stated in my post.


> 1. Better documented C based tools (lex/flex, yacc/bison). Hence why
> instructors on Java courses keep referring students to the GNU
> documentation in preference to CUP.


Documentation quality is subjective. There seem to be more than one
implementation of something like yacc for Java. The first the comes
up in google is jack, directly from Sun.


(snip)


> PS - C is not my language of choice for programming in general - it
> just seems that it is best suited for this application.


My feeling about Java has always been that it is more C-like than C++
is. It isn't that hard to write code similar to what you might write
in C, and, I believe, a lot easier to debug.


-- glen

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