On Friday, Jan 31, 2003, at 10:04 US/Pacific, webguy wrote:
... but only really for those that want to build hard core compliers
(i.e.
nerds like J.J. Sean C. ), you can use things like lex and Yacc (Yet
I resemble that remark! :)
Another Compiler Compiler) to build a compiler. Building a compiler is
just
1 step away from being a computer programmer nirvana.
Building an OS is nirvana.
Heh... maybe... Anyways, lex is a good tool (although lexers are so
easy to write) but yacc is fairly restrictive and cannot handle all
languages (e.g., it is not possible to write a full C++ compiler using
pure yacc).
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/
If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
-- Margaret Atwood
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