Re: Choosing a language for compiler design

jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
20 Oct 1996 16:45:27 -0400

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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Oct 1996 16:45:27 -0400
Organization: Organon Motives, Inc.
References: 96-10-075 96-10-083
Keywords: design



:> Now that I have an Yacc/Lex files for Oberon, I face the problem of
:> choosing a language for its implementation.
:> I have versions of Yacc/Lex for C, C++, Turbo Pascal and Ada.


icedancer@ibm.net (Ken Walter) writes:
> You need to decide what is important for you. If it is portability
> then C++ is good since you don't need to use ALL of it.


I'm not sure I understand this line of thought. If portability is
really an issue, I would think that Perl (as another poster
suggested), C and Ada are the best of those listed. Perl is basically
everywhere, gcc makes C available basically everywhere, and GNAT makes
Ada95 basically available everywhere - without restrictions on what
you can or should not use to avoid shooting yourself in the foot.


/Jon


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