Python Rocks!

[Mike Fletcher]

Curse your Xenophobia!  What's wrong with embracing a little alien
technology once in a while?  Hath not an alien grammars, productions, rules?
If you prick us, do we not ooze a clear ectoplasm?

Seriously, I would guess wrapping Antlr might be a better approach?  That
would (hopefully) allow for compatible modules on both the C and Java
implementations.  From what I've heard, the Antlr codebase is well designed
and fairly fast.

And, when you've gained the wisdom to venture out among the stars and
appreciate the differences in the universe, my people will be waiting to
share our technology with you.

Nanu,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim_one at email.msn.com]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 4:38 AM
To: François Pinard
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: RE: Python Rocks!
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[François Pinard]
> ...
> Isn't there a need for compiling grammars into fast scanners
> and parsers, a bit like Flex and Bison do for C people?

Yes, but that's really a different topic.  The Python world has no good
approach to that now, paying attention to the "fast" part, and where "good"
means "enough like Flex and Bison that you don't feel you've been stranded
on some strange alien planet" <wink>.
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