Re: Status of ayacc and aflex?

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Peter C. Chapin wrote:

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|"I have a need for a parser generator and a lexical analyzer generator |
|that produce Ada. I see that there is an ayacc and aflex project. [..] |
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|[..] |
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|[..] Is there some other parser |
|generator that I should be looking at instead? |
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|Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give..." |
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One mention of ASIS and some mentions of recursive descent parsers
have been made. I shall state advice for you in a more direct
manner. Do not write anything based on Lex and YACC. They are for
bottom-up designs. Learn how to do top-down parsing or otherwise be
damned to never write an unbuggy parser.
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