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Subject: Re: Re: Lexical analyzers and parsers - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 16:48:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!liberte    Apr 29 15:48:00 1984

I have a feeling that parsing will be used less often as smarter editors
are developed that avoid parsing altogether by having the user enter the
structure of the program directly.  Thus arbitrary identifiers may be used.

Parsers will still be used to get programs in and out of the editor, but
they may take longer cracking more ambiguous syntax.  Oh yes, the 
editor would output intermediate code to the language compiler/interpreter.

Daniel LaLiberte,  U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science
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