From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: (Off-topic) Making a compiler
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:34:30 +0100
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Hello.

Nelson Fleet wrote:
[snip]
> Just something to learn a little bit about the principles.  Should I be
> learning about yacc? Bison?
[snip]

I'd recommend learning Flex and Bison anyway. It's much easier to maintain a
Flex+Bison parser than a handcoded parser IMNSHO. But if you want to learn
about writing parsers from scratch, then you might want ignore this advice. 8)

Have fun!

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]