Sidney Reilley II <[email protected]> skribis: > At this initial stage of learning the language, I'm not interested in > all the esoteric stuff, and layers upon layer of abstraction and > obfuscation. I just want the basics so that I can get somewhat > productive. The (Un)Icon Master's course can come later. ;)
I would suggest writing a top-down parser in pure Icon, without concern for speed efficiency, and without a separate lexer. It's a very common goal-oriented task and was how I broke the barrier. Also see Wikipedia articles such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking (Un)icon can be worth knowing, because my knowledge of it made me the guy people went to at my last work if they needed a parsing task done; typically I would either write the code in Icon or, if it needed to be in C, I would prototype in Icon and then write C. (Actually, come to think of it, I think we gave Unicon to customers so they could run some of my programs themselves.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
