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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