On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 20:20 +0100, Matthias Paulmier wrote: > Thanks I'll have a look. I've used the C version of flex and bison > already as said in my original post. > > However I think we'll stick to Perl for this project. As John Calcote > said > (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-03/msg00004.html>), > Perl has its advantages for such a project and I don't know if a > lower level programming language would benefit Automake that much. > Maybe I'm wrong.
Well John's one to know because he literally wrote my favourite book on the Autotools! A lot of what Automake does is string manipulation which probably lends itself well to an interpreted language like Perl. -- Kip Warner | Senior Software Engineer OpenPGP signed/encrypted mail preferred https://www.cartesiantheatre.com
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