Re: Wanted: advice on writing compiler in Perl!

bnm@indica.bbt.com (Brian N. Miller)
19 May 1996 14:29:08 -0400

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From: bnm@indica.bbt.com (Brian N. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.compilers
Date: 19 May 1996 14:29:08 -0400
Organization: BroadBand Technologies, RTP NC
References: 96-05-099
Keywords: design

Perl has some very helpful features for compiler writing:


    - Regular expressions which are powerful enough to
        replace or minimize a scanner.


    - Useful data structures built in: hash tables and lisp-like
                                                                            lists.


    - Easy file io.


But I couldn't find any ready-to-use general parsing toolkits for
perl. And I'm not happy with the quality of perl debuggers.


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