[antlr-interest] ANTLR build and package layout

[Terence Parr]

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
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Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator: http://www.antlr.org


 

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