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

Bob Duff wrote:
> "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.


Howdy Bob,


Well...it really is a matter of personal preference...
didn't mean to ruffle anyones feathers ;-)


In relation to compiler writting one problem I see with Ada is that
they (Ichbiah et al ?) took away Sets when they designed Ada. When I
ported my LL(1) parse table generator from Turbo Pascal (OOP ver 7) to
an old GNAT Ada version, I had to write my own Set routines package.
Of course, I did it, so Set is now included, for me anyway, but is not
a built-in feature. I also had to write my own Turbo Pascal style
string routines, but then Turbo style strings are not really standard
Pascal, so that might be nit picking on my part.


[Of course, I could write my own "Rational" pre processor for Ada to
have my cake and eat it too ;-) ]


Charles

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