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- From: davidt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 21:19:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
- Message-ID: <4ipsoj$iri@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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- In article <4id4cc$1rau@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- >
- >I personally do not find complex text file formats as an exceptable
- >user friendly method of input in this day and age. Users should look
- >at GUI's not goofy text files. Thus, slight differences in the
- >flexiblity of file formats is really of little concern these days as
- >no one should be really looking at them. Besides grammer style legacy
- >text file formats I see little use for parsing besides writing your
- >own C++ or Ada95 or other language compiler ( or pretty printer, etc).
- >Something I am not planning to do anytime soon. So has GUI's and huge
- >languages really ruined the usefulness of parsing, or am I forgetting
- >some important uses of parsers.
-
- How about tools for extracting information from source code? If you
- use a structured commenting convention in your code, then you can
- extract extremely useful documentation with a simple parser. (Doesn't
- Java have something like this?)
-
- Or how about small custom tools? For example, one project I worked
- (using C) on had a tool to generate prototype files.
-
- Besides, with text based formats, you can do remote configuration a
- lot more easily (I'm guessing you're not using X).
-
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- Andrew Taylor |email: davidt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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