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I remember coding together a compiler using flex and bison. It was a nightmare. This definitely is not a short term task. Frankly I don't think the commitment i
by Ennis 17y ago
I remember coding together a compiler using flex and bison. It was a nightmare. This definitely is not a short term task. Frankly I don't think the commitment is there from the community. Not yet at least.
Then again, gcc breakage is ridiculously common. It's got to be tackled at some point.
- barrkel 17y agoFlex and bison? See, that's a mistake right there! The tools often end up more hassle than coding the lexer and parser directly. Writing compilers is normally fun, not a nightmare. It does tend towards nightmarish if your implementation language is very low-level, though; particularly if it lacks type safety and garbage collection.