[antlr-interest] ANTLR build and package layout

[Matt Benson]

The article basically says that XML adds levels of
complexity the human mind has evolved to infer by
reflex.  Hopefully he wouldn't have to explain "why
that's bad."  Beyond that, I personally am careful how
I speak to those who have made fundamental
contributions to computer science.  Have you?

Just some thoughts,
Matt

--- Xue-Feng Yang <just4look at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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