[antlr-interest] Yo, Ter (was Re: ANTLR build and package layout)
lgcraymer
lgc at mail1.jpl.nasa.gov
Thu Sep 19 21:31:54 PDT 2002
Ter--
Why not make your kiddies write a domain specific language for
generating skeletal ANT scripts? That would be the obvious analog to
the PCCTS Makefile generator and would be a good class assignment.
--Loring
--- In antlr-interest at y..., Terence Parr <parrt at j...> 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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