• Georg Wrede <georg.wrede nospam.org> Dec 10 2005
• daerid <daerid gmail.com> Dec 24 2005

I guess '84 is looking over the shoulder, after all:

Found the following, lying around "outside of our domain",


From: Larry Evans <cppljevans <at> cox-internet.com>
Subject: praise from dtl
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.devel
Date: 2005-11-04 18:12:35 GMT
(5 weeks, 1 day, 3 hours and 27 minutes ago)

Just thought you spirit developers would enjoy this.
The quote is from a post to digitalmars.D.dtl
with subject=Re: I want a tree.

On 11/04/2005 10:23 AM, Georg Wrede wrote:
  > Larry Evans wrote:
  >
  >> On 09/15/2005 04:02 PM, Georg Wrede wrote:
  >>
  >>> I know there are several directions to go to if I want to end up
  >>> with a  tree structure that represents a program file's lexed and
  >>> parsed contents. Some of them better than the other, in some
  >>> aspect.
  >>>
  >>> What I'm looking for is to be able to read D source as input, parse
  >>> it to a tree, then output it as (almost) the same source.
  >>
  >>
  >> What about emulating boost's spirit library?
  >>
  >> http://www.boost.org/libs/spirit/index.html
  >
  >
  > Whew! Thaks!
  >
 Spent 6 hours reading through the entire manual!
 
 This is awsome stuff. Imagine that you can write source code just
 like always, and within it lines that look like "normal" grammar
 definitions -- without any jumping or gymnastics. Just unbelievable.
 
 While the template "programming language" in C++ is a nightmare, some
 of these guys really can make it shine! And to think that the end
 result turns out to be so incredibly easy, usable, and obvious!
 
 And the manual, and the quick reference. Oh boy!


  >
 And as a Linux user, I've had this all along -- what an embarrasment.
 No downloads, configuring, nothing. Just try out the examples and
 ideas, right now.
 
 This is almost enough to make me go back to C++ (no panic, just for
 this one thing, nothing else), for a while to try this out.
 
 Man, D metaprogramming features should be relentlessly pursued until
 we can _proove_ that anything the C++ guys could do is doable in D!


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I've been following spirit for a few years, and honestly it's quite possibly the
coolest and most innovative application of c++ that I know of :)

I have faith that D can step up to the plate though. D's template system seems
to be both simpler and more powerful than c++'s.

Bryan Ross
daerid gmail.com

In article <439B4F11.6000003 nospam.org>, Georg Wrede says...
I guess '84 is looking over the shoulder, after all:

Found the following, lying around "outside of our domain",


From: Larry Evans <cppljevans <at> cox-internet.com>
Subject: praise from dtl
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.devel
Date: 2005-11-04 18:12:35 GMT
(5 weeks, 1 day, 3 hours and 27 minutes ago)

Just thought you spirit developers would enjoy this.
The quote is from a post to digitalmars.D.dtl
with subject=Re: I want a tree.

On 11/04/2005 10:23 AM, Georg Wrede wrote:
  > Larry Evans wrote:
  >
  >> On 09/15/2005 04:02 PM, Georg Wrede wrote:
  >>
  >>> I know there are several directions to go to if I want to end up
  >>> with a  tree structure that represents a program file's lexed and
  >>> parsed contents. Some of them better than the other, in some
  >>> aspect.
  >>>
  >>> What I'm looking for is to be able to read D source as input, parse
  >>> it to a tree, then output it as (almost) the same source.
  >>
  >>
  >> What about emulating boost's spirit library?
  >>
  >> http://www.boost.org/libs/spirit/index.html
  >
  >
  > Whew! Thaks!
  >
 Spent 6 hours reading through the entire manual!
 
 This is awsome stuff. Imagine that you can write source code just
 like always, and within it lines that look like "normal" grammar
 definitions -- without any jumping or gymnastics. Just unbelievable.
 
 While the template "programming language" in C++ is a nightmare, some
 of these guys really can make it shine! And to think that the end
 result turns out to be so incredibly easy, usable, and obvious!
 
 And the manual, and the quick reference. Oh boy!


  >
 And as a Linux user, I've had this all along -- what an embarrasment.
 No downloads, configuring, nothing. Just try out the examples and
 ideas, right now.
 
 This is almost enough to make me go back to C++ (no panic, just for
 this one thing, nothing else), for a while to try this out.
 
 Man, D metaprogramming features should be relentlessly pursued until
 we can _proove_ that anything the C++ guys could do is doable in D!


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