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Date: 28 May 93 06:37:41 GMT
From: netnews!schonberg!dewar@nyu.edu  (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: what languages Ada 9X compilers are being written in
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With respect to the idea of using an enumeration type and 'VAL to read and
parse keywords, it's cute, but no serious compiler would use such a technique
since it is likely to be seriously inefficient, and any gains in simplicity
are probably illusion in the context of a complete lexical scanner.