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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is right recursive C grammar necessary?
Summary: Yacc - ugh!
Message-ID: <752@garth.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 19:02:42 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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Church:  Our Lady of Reluctant Software.

My only experience with Yacc so far make me wish I had used recursive descent.
I had to chop up an LL(3) grammar just to soothe its ineffectual lookahead
computation.

If Yacc uses a fixed size stack, it is lousy program. It should be fixed
instead of making its users workaround and study its internals. (So much for
modular software.)

Actually, I think Yacc and its ilk are like driver licenses--they give
the general public freedom but think of all those traffic fatalities.

                                   Make it simple--not simplistic.
                                               smryan