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Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing)

From "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
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Subject Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing)
Date 2013-01-05 13:03 +0000
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

> The only issue is likely a philosophical one in that I have *NEVER*
> trusted code generators of any kind

So you don't care for compilers ?

;-)

    -- chris

P.S.  Seriously: the point of classic compiler generators (or 
"compiler-compilers" as they were often called) are to produce code that works 
and that runs fast in little space.  It is not /AT ALL/ a design principle that 
the code should be comprehensible to humans -- in fact for the kinds of 
algorithms they use, there is no way the resulting code and tables could be 
remotely comprehensible (to an ordinary programmer), that is /why/ we use code 
generators.

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question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 00:20 -0800
  Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 00:24 -0800
    Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-01-02 12:24 -0800
  Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 11:16 -0800
    Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 19:55 -0500
      Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 17:21 -0800
        Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 20:40 -0500
  Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-02 11:17 -0800
    Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 19:56 -0500
      Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 17:27 -0800
        Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 17:32 -0800
        Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 17:42 -0800
          Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 17:55 -0800
            Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 18:02 -0800
              Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 21:12 -0500
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 18:16 -0800
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 21:20 -0500
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 18:22 -0800
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 21:26 -0500
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 18:27 -0800
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 21:46 -0500
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 20:41 -0800
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 21:54 -0500
            Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 21:15 -0500
              Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 18:20 -0800
        Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 21:17 -0500
        Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-01-02 22:33 -0800
          Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-01-05 12:58 +0000
            Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-05 05:34 -0800
              Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-05 05:40 -0800
              Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 21:56 -0500
      Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-01-03 21:14 +0000
        Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-03 17:51 -0500
          Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 20:54 -0800
            Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-01-05 00:15 +0000
            Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-01-05 13:03 +0000
              Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-05 05:25 -0800
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 21:49 -0500
                Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 23:26 -0800
            Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 21:44 -0500
  Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-02 19:54 -0500

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