On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Christophe Broult wrote:

> I have seen the message you sent to the list and IIRC what you said about
> LL(k) language being more human readable seems to be right. I would have to
> look at Compilers Principle, Design and Tools to tell you the exact
> advantages.
> 
> At http://www.antlr.org/recommendations.html the first recommendation is:
> 
>       Just wanted to take the opportunity to say thanks. ANTLR is a BIG
> improvement   
>       over yacc/lex, and your support for it most commendable.  Managed to
> get my 
>       tired old brain around it in a day. Nice work!
> 
>       Dr. Brad Cox; Inventor of Objective-C
> 
>       [Check out what Brad's doing now: http://superdistributed.com]       
> 
> Christophe
> 
Ok, sounds interesting. If you or someone else goes ahead with ANTLR-type
parsing in/for Ruby I'd be interested in merging my project with yours so
that the community benefits the most.

Please keep me posted of any advances...

Regards,

Robert