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From: bwm@ccieng2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Lexical analyzers and parsers
Message-ID: <174@ccieng2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 09:52:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 09:52:51 1984
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Fortran, simple???

Any language that you have to parse most of a line and then back up to find the
token (like fortran) has severe brain damage. Consider:

IF(I.EQ.2)22,23,22

It isn't until we hit the first comma that fortran realizes it is not looking
at an identifier! It then realizes that an identifier cannot be followed by
a comma, and backs up looking for a reserved word!!!!!!

GAG!


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