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From: adam@visix.com
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Subject: Re: Forth and CS
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.171916.28538@visix.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 17:19:16 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.211633.5080@visix.com>, adam@visix.com writes:
|> LALR parsing sucks ... syntax sucks.

In article <13699@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J.
Bouma) writes:
|> To say absolutely (as some have) "syntax sucks" is idiotic.

In article <1991Mar4.211633.5080@visix.com>, adam@visix.com writes:
|> (If you want your programs to look like algebra or natural language,
|> you have to parse them.  But parsing costs power and efficiency.)