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- > flex and byacc (Berkley Yacc) are available for Atari's from various FTP
-
- I've never seen byacc. Does it differ from the others in some significant way?
- By the way, bison is of course also available for the Ataris.
-
- > > C is a very nice language, in fact the best I've seen. Glasnost is only
- ...
- > Hmm.. One of the lecturers here (on the compiler design/imp. courses) has
- > a thing about C... He likes picking holes in it...
-
- At the University I went to, most of the CS people are into functional
- languages...
- While those may be nice and provable, I've yet to see one I'd like to
- write a 'normal' program in.
-
- > eg. does i+++j (which is valid C) mean:
- > (i++) + j or i + (++j)
-
- Of course noone in his right mind would ever write code like that.
- There is a very specific standard for the language that I'm sure would
- answer most of his questions, though. ;-)
-
- > also the avoidance of keywords like endif and enddo are a pet hate...
-
- ?!?
- That's one of the major reasons I like C!
- (The ++ and += style things are another.)
- Properly written C code can be so 'airy' and easy to read.
-
- One of the functional languages I've seen actually used only the indentation
- to mark blocks...
-
- > (PS. the first expression is correct, IIRC)
-
- I would have guessed so, but I certainly won't start writing like that.
- Some people seem to think that it's smart to know and use every little
- strange thing in the C syntax and operation priorities, but I much prefer
- to write code that's readable by a person without in-depth C-knowledge.
-
-
- Ooops!
- I just realized that we're going off on another of those peripheral
- discussions here...
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