As for D lexers and tokenizers, what would be nice is to A) build an antlr grammar for D B) build D targets for antlr so that antlr can generate lexers and parsers in the D language.
For B) I found http://www.mbutscher.de/antlrd/index.html For A) A good list of antlr grammars is at http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list, but there isn't a D grammar. These things wouldn't be an enormous amount of work to create and maintain, and, if done, anyone could parse D code in many languages, including Java and C which would make providing IDE features for D development easier in those languages (eclipse for instance), and you could build lexers and parsers in D using antlr grammars. -Mike On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+s...@com.gmail> wrote: > On 27/10/2010 22:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> "retard"<r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote in message >> news:iaa44v$17s...@digitalmars.com... >> >>> >>> I only meant that the widespead adoption of Java shows how the public at >>> large cares very little about the performance issues you mentioned. >>> >> >> The public at large is convinced that "Java is fast now, really!". So I'm >> not certain widespread adoption of Java necessarily indicates they don't >> care so much about performance. Of course, Java is quickly becoming a >> legacy >> language anyway (the next COBOL, IMO), so that throws another wrench into >> the works. >> >> >> > Java is quickly becoming a legacy language? the next COBOL? SRSLY?... > Just two years ago, the now hugely popular Android platform choose Java as > it's language of choice, and you think Java is becoming legacy?... > > The development of the Java language itself has stagnated over the last 6 > years or so (especially due to corporate politics, which now has become even > worse and uncertain with all the shit Oracle is doing), but that's a > completely different statement from saying Java is becoming legacy. > In fact, all the uproar and concern about the future of Java under Oracle, > of the JVM, of the JCP (the body that regulates changes to Java),etc., is a > testament to the huge popularity of Java. Otherwise people (and > corporations) wouldn't care, they would just let it wither away with much > less concern. > > > -- > Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer >
