Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!mmdf
From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Syntax of Perl
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.141519.14313@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 90 14:15:19 GMT
Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Uvaarpa Mail System)
Reply-To: worley@compass.com
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 14

Larry sez:
    But the syntax isn't all that
    much more complicated than C, certainly not more than about twice as
    complicated.  I personally think C's syntax is a little too simple (heresy!)
    for certain kinds of problems [...]

If you think the syntax of C is simple, just try writing an LALR(1)
grammar for ANSI C declarators.  Yuck!!!  (Don't forget to allow
typedef names to be redeclared in the right places -- that's what
makes it "fun".)

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
--
Toto, kansasoseum nun est cognito.  -- Farley