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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CFG's and OCaml
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:52:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040814085204.GL7901@alan-schm1p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040814105751.22099f53.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>

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* Erik de Castro Lopo (ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com) wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:25:59 +0100
> Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Are most programming languages designed to be implementable using 
> > lex and yacc?
> 
> Maybe not lex and yacc, but most are designed to be parsed by 
> LALR(1) parsers.
> 
> Currently the most difficult to parse language seems to be C++.

I vote for TeX as the most difficult language to lex and parse.

Alan Schmitt

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-14 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-13 14:04 David McClain
2004-08-13 15:05 ` Damien Doligez
2004-08-13 15:26   ` David McClain
2004-08-13 16:12     ` Damien Doligez
2004-08-13 15:28   ` David McClain
2004-08-13 15:49 ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-13 16:04   ` David McClain
2004-08-13 16:29     ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-13 16:42       ` Xavier Leroy
2004-08-13 17:18         ` Ken Rose
2004-08-13 18:55         ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-14  0:25           ` Jon Harrop
2004-08-14  0:57             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-08-14  8:52               ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2004-08-14  3:33             ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-14  7:55             ` skaller
2004-08-14 20:19               ` Jon Harrop
2004-08-14 20:55                 ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-14 20:57                   ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-14 22:15                     ` skaller
2004-08-15  1:26                   ` Jon Harrop
2004-08-15  8:24                     ` skaller
2004-08-15 15:39                     ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-15 16:54                       ` Jon Harrop
2004-08-14 22:13                 ` skaller
2004-08-13 16:58     ` Paul Snively
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2004-08-12 19:15 David McClain

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