Re: LL(1) vs LALR(1) parsers

Richard O'Keefe writes (ok.cs.rmit.edu.au)


> Yacc was wonderful for a PDP-11. I have encouraged several bright students
> to use it in projects, and every time it has taken them a long time to
> learn how to use it.
[snip]


> That's why I've reverted to writing recursive descent parsers.


[snip]


> I KNOW YACC. It seems to take _bright_ students >10 hours to learn how to
> use Yacc in a basic sort of way.


[snip - call for someone to evaluate various generators]


We have found that students can get up and running with Coco/R in a very short
time. It's definitely worth a look if you're teaching beginners. And you
can get C, Oberon, Pascal or Modula versions.




Pat Terry, Computer Science, Rhodes University, GRAHAMSTOWN 6140, RSA
cspt@cs.ru.ac.za or cspt@giraffe.ru.ac.za or pdterry@psg.com
Voice +27-461-318291 or +27-461-318292 FAX +27-461-25049
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