Re: Congrats, David!
- Posted by Mike Hurley <mikehurley.1 at NETZERO.NET> Jan 08, 2001
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My God! He can be nice! At 05:23 PM 1/8/01 -0800, you wrote: >Heh? Does this list still work?? I haven't received >any messages since yesterday.... weird... > >Anyways, Congrats to David Cunny for his OX parser >generator! It saves a ton of work when wanting to >implement language parsers, INI file readers, or Text >To Speech in Euphoria! >Euphoria was lacking a parser generator... >C has tons of 'em, YACC, BISON, FLEX, etc.. > >For all yall that don't know how a parser generator >works... >If you want to, for example, implement a programming >language in Euphoria, then you would normally write >code to read a source file, break it up into little >tokens, wich you then eighter run or translate to >another language. Coding this is very boring work, but >with a parser generator you just tell a program how >your language looks like, and it will output a program >that can read a file in that language you specified, >break it up into tokens, and prompt you with a token >when one is encountered, so you can immediatly >translate or run it, or store it away in memory. >Pretty cool shit. > >If you compare writing a programming language from >scratch, or writing one using OX, OX saves you 70% of >coding time. > >Mike The Spike > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! >http://photos.yahoo.com/ ----- Mike Hurley EMail: mikehurley.1 at netzero.net Web: http://members.xoom.com/MikesEuWeb/ Shop Safely Online Without a Credit Card http://www.rocketcash.com