[antlr-interest] Yo, Ter (was Re: ANTLR build and package lay out)

[mzukowski at yci.com]

Hey kids,
	A good start would be my Makefile/ETAGS generator which is already
on antlr.org, if you're trying to figure out the dependencies that .g files
have.

Monty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lgcraymer [mailto:lgc at mail1.jpl.nasa.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:32 PM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [antlr-interest] Yo, Ter (was Re: ANTLR build and package
> layout)
> 
> 
> Ter--
> 
> Why not make your kiddies write a domain specific language for 
> generating skeletal ANT scripts?  That would be the obvious analog to 
> the PCCTS Makefile generator and would be a good class assignment.
> 
> --Loring
> 
> 
> --- In antlr-interest at y..., Terence Parr <parrt at j...> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:27  AM, Matt Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > For whatever it's worth, Brian is not the only one out
> > > here who wishes there were an Ant build for ANTLR.
> > 
> > I am fundamentally opposed to Ant (even though it is reputed to be 
> > good) because it forces users to type XML.  See "Humans Should Not 
> Have 
> > to Grok XML", which explains why that's bad:
> > 
> > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-sbxml.html
> > 
> > I believe I'm pretty persuasive in that article. ;)  
> [though it will 
> > make no difference whatsoever to most people who are "every 
> language 
> > should be XML" people--makes me wanna retch, but that emotion is a 
> good 
> > thing since it forced me to make ANTLR (yacc makes 
> > me...well..er...yack!)].
> > 
> > Nonetheless, my goal is to make ANTLR useful for you folks.  Hence, 
> if 
> > somebody sends me a fresh Ant script with an explanation so I don't 
> > have to think much, I will consider inserting it and using it for 
> ANTLR 
> > builds.
> > 
> > Ter
> > --
> > Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
> > Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator: http://www.antlr.org
> 
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