[antlr-interest] what's in a name?

Sam Barnett-Cormack s.barnett-cormack at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Aug 27 14:57:02 PDT 2009


Terence Parr wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>> I still think "Language Design Patterns" is misleading, really, as  
>> it's not really about the languages, it's about recognisers and  
>> other implementation issues. It's design, in the sense of the design  
>> of the recogniser.
> 
> If you assume that design is an adjective the patterns, then it is a  
> perfect title. oh well.

To me, it reads with "design patterns" as a compound noun - it seems to 
say it's design patterns for languages. And I love that design patterns 
is there.

-- 
Sam Barnett-Cormack


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