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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:01:46 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 07:35:50 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 6/29/2015 4:20 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:42:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 6/8/2015 10:39 AM, e.d.programmer@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> We use Eclipse for Java, Oracle Java and Android Java, so I know it
>>>> supports other languages but I don't know which ones.  If it doesn't
>>>> have built in support for another specific language it does support
>>>> plugins which can make it support any language.  You can write your
>>>> own plugins, though if the language is somewhat popular odds are
>>>> someone else already wrote one.
>>>
>>> Everything in Eclipse is a plugin even Java.
>>>
>>> My experience with Eclipse and languages are:
>>>
>>> good support: Java, Scala, C, C++, Fortran, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby,
>>> Tcl, JavaScript, Ada
>>>
>>> bad support: C#, Cobol (the open source one not the MicroFocus one)
>>>
>>> unknown support: Groovy, Clojure, Lua
>>>
>>> no support: PL/I, VB
>>
>> Interesting list. Out of curiosity, how does it deal with bash SQL and
>> awk scripts?
> 
> I think SQL is covered by:
> 
> https://eclipse.org/datatools/
> 
> I have never seen anything for awk nor can I google anything.
>
Strange, since its a standard file manipulation scripting tool for UNIX/
Linux but I notice that its supported by SlickEdit.

I was more surprised to see that SlickEdit has language support for Lex & 
Yacc but not for Coco/R. I've used both and vastly prefer Coco/R, because:

- Coco/R only needs one source file to describe the syntax to be parsed
  while Lex & Yacc need two independent files

- its a lot easier to modify its code templates

- there are versions for many languages, not just C

- each version is ported into the language that it generates parsers for,
  so installing and using it is straight-forward for anybody who will
  use it and means its unlikely to require any additional libraries to be
  installed.

 

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