[antlr-interest] Re: ACE C preprocessor by Gosling
Terence Parr
parrt at jguru.com
Wed May 29 18:09:10 PDT 2002
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 04:29 PM, jsrs701 wrote:
> --- In antlr-interest at y..., Terence Parr <parrt at j...> wrote:
>> Heh, that's pretty slick.
>
> Ain't it, though? I used to work with a guy who worked on XNews with
> Gosling at the time, and he said that Gosling came bursting in one
> Monday morning with the ACE preprocessor all done and working.
>
> The kick is that he only thought of it at about 11am on the Saturday
> before.
>
> Yes, Gosling really is that friggin' cool. :)
I had lunch with him just before Java hit the bigtime...nice guy.
Pretty unassuming for such a distinguished career.
>> Reminds me of some stuff I'm thinking about
>> for the "emitter" stage of translation.
>
> What ho? What is this? Tell us, O Great One Our Leader!
<snicker>
Very secret stuff ;) Just trying to solve that last nasty problem of
the "emitter". You have a tree, but how the devil to you generate
output without a million print statements. I think I have a nice
"output grammar" idea that is the inverse of the input grammar. The
prototype of this output template stuff is currently generating HTML
pages on jGuru ;)
Ter
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