[antlr-interest] Re: ACE C preprocessor by Gosling

jsrs701 jsrs701 at yahoo.com
Wed May 29 18:55:12 PDT 2002


--- In antlr-interest at y..., Terence Parr <parrt at j...> wrote:
> I had lunch with him just before Java hit the bigtime...nice guy.  
> Pretty unassuming for such a distinguished career.

Yeah, my buddy said Gosling was one of the most even-keeled, well-
adjusted humans he'd ever met.  Pretty good for someone so smart.  :-)

> 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.  

YES!  That would be great!  I think I see where you're going with 
that.  What kind of shape is it in?  When are you gonna RFC it for us?

JSRS


 

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