Am 19.10.2010 14:48, schrieb Alexander Klenin: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 23:14, Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org> > wrote: >> Am 19.10.2010 14:02, schrieb Alexander Klenin: >> The topic of this thread and the patch was/is alternative parsers. As >> you worked on the case of string stuff (or your student) you might also >> know that the fpc parser is written straight forward and anybody knowing >> the dragon books might be able to work on it and far from being fragile. > > Oh, do not remind me of that. Do you know that said student > had quit working on FPC because he found the code base to be > a <insert polite adjective here> mess? > (And which is sadder to me, he also took a different adviser for > his next year course work). > I actually teach compiler construction at the university, > and he correctly noted that compilers produced by some > students at the end of the course are better structured than FPC.
Oh really? Where can I download these great compilers? I hope they are ready for production use. BTW: We spend a lot of time to fix his mess of code :) No problem he was student, but I consider him far from being able to judge about code quality considering his work :) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
