David Abrahams wrote: > Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> David Abrahams wrote: >>> That BoostBook->HTML transformation can be rewritten easily in Python >> I'm betting it could more easily be written in PHP ;-) We are all biased >> as far a languages go. So I tend to prefer language agnostic >> architectures. Like the AST you mention, > > Or XML? :)
Not sure which part you are referring to for XML... * If it's the AST, sure. * If it's the translation, well that's XSLT, which is the nightmare I'm trying to avoid. For those who think that using a structure definition language as the basis for a programming language is good idea: seek psychiatric help. >> and that we've mentioned before on the list. > > It's a data structure; if you represent it in memory you'll need to > code that in some language. I don't see how that's language-agnostic. Even in memory data structures can be used intra-language. After all, they are equivalent to on file data structure (in-memory -> on-file -> in-memory). It could just as easily be: in-memory -> PHP/Python/Perl. You should especially know that from BPL and language binding ;-) -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
