[antlr-interest] ANTLR build and package layout
Xue-Feng Yang
just4look at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 19 11:52:06 PDT 2002
Totally disagree!
The link you gave doesn't talk about "why that's bad".
BTW, I wrote several compilers without using any
compiler compiler. However I never think that compiler
compiler is useless.
--- Terence Parr <parrt at jguru.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
> Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator:
> http://www.antlr.org
>
>
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