[antlr-interest] ITLS (was: Translators Should Use Tree Grammars)

[Oliver Zeigermann]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:16:41 -0800, John D. Mitchell
<johnm-antlr at non.net> wrote:
> Well, I don't have time to get into all of the silliness (and other folks
> have already done a fair job at it :-) so here's a more general facet that,
> alas, is missed completely in your diatribe...

Saying something is silly without explaining what is not very convincing...
 
>         * Any non-trivial program written in a general purpose programming
>           language contains ad-hoc, bug-ridden, inarticulate
>           implementations of multiple, informally-specified, incomplete
>           languages.

What are you referring to here: the equivalence of phrase structure
grammars and a turing machine? If so, program and grammar are just two
ways to look at a problem with neither of them having precedence over
the other. So, your argument does not seem to be too convincing to me.

Oliver


 
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