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Re: Am I writing C wrong?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Am I writing C wrong?
Date 2021-11-25 14:28 +0000
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Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:

> Am 24.11.21 um 09:26 schrieb David Brown:
>
>> And if this is all for fun and interest, then the main concern should be
>> finding which parts of the whole concept are of most interest to you,
>> and picking a language that lets you concentrate on that part, and
>> handles everything lower level automatically.
>
> Note that there are also tools, like lex and yacc, that will handle the
> parts that are hard to do in C for you, and can be used together with
> your C code for the other tasks.

True, but I don't think the objective is to parse anything in articular
but to develop a parsing toolkit based, as closely as C will reasonably
permit, on the combiner model that is popular in functional languages.

-- 
Ben.

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Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 18:48 -0800
  Re: Am I writing C wrong? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-11-24 09:26 +0100
    Re: Am I writing C wrong? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-11-25 14:41 +0100
      Re: Am I writing C wrong? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-11-25 14:28 +0000
        Re: Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-11-25 19:18 -0800
          Re: Am I writing C wrong? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-11-26 11:18 +0000
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  Re: Am I writing C wrong? Dave Dunfield <dave.dunfield@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 20:11 -0800
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    Re: Am I writing C wrong? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-12-11 11:45 +0000
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