Re: [boost] [Christian S] Spirit and ANTLR - Request for example

Subject: Re: [boost] [Christian S] Spirit and ANTLR - Request for example
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-09 14:00:46

Christian Schladetsch wrote:
> Even so, I can't really bring myself to back down. Spirit is looked at being
> the "way of doing language" in C++ these days, which is a crying shame.
> There are better tools than Spirit.
> 
> Spirit is *not* the best way of making a parser. Is ANTLR? I don't know. But
> Spirit is clever more than it is useful.
> 
> Does that make me a bad person for saying so? Maybe. Am I big enough and old
> enough and, yes, experienced enough to say so here, and anywhere, and wear
> the consequences? Yes.

As a user of both Spirit and ANTLR, I am aware of the merits of each. I
enjoy this topic very much but it would be nice to hit the reset button
on this thread.

-- 
Sohail Somani
http://uint32t.blogspot.com