[antlr-interest] Re: java 1.4 as min value?

matthew ford Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au
Tue Nov 16 17:50:11 PST 2004


V1.4 is OK with me also.

V1.5's thread locking fails on a program that runs just fine under V1.4
(Sun mucked about with the thread priorities etc.) so I am postponing moving
to V1.5 for the moment.
matthew
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Subject: [antlr-interest] Re: java 1.4 as min value?


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> 1.4 dates back to 2002.  java.sun.com provides only 1.4.2 and 5.0 (nee
> 1.5) for download.  IBM still supports a 1.3.1 download in addition to
> 1.4.  SGI supports a range of downloads, from 1.1.18 to 1.4.1
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> It looks like anyone depending on pre-1.4 has already got
> maintainability problems and they can only get worse.
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> 1.4 is a good baseline.  1.5 still scares me because of the addition
> of generics, but I have yet to investigate whether Sun avoided the
> pitfalls that C++ ran into with standardizing templates before
> standard practice had emerged.
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> --Loring
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> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at c...> wrote:
> > How do people feel about ANTLR 3.0 requiring 1.4 JDK or above?  I want
> > two things so far:
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> > LinkedHashMap
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> > memory mapped I/O
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> > Thoughts?  Perhaps those using 1.3 are doing so for legacy reasons and
> > therefore are having to use 2.x version of ANTLR anyway.
> >
> > Ter
> > --
> > CS Professor & Grad Director, University of San Francisco
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