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Re: Interesting Problem: Pretty Printer

Posted by Frank Hale on 1999-05-04

Weasel wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm just doing something for university:
> A Pretty Printer for Ada.
> 
> Not that I need your help (I want to do it myself), I just want to tell
> you, if you really want a challenging task, try to write one (for any
> language) youself. On the first thought it always seems very easy but
> the problems are in the details.
> 

Are you writing it in Perl? Perl is excellent for parsing files and
things. Its alot simpler in perl than to do it in C.

Your code2html.pl app is excellent. Perl is one of the coolest languages
in my opinion.

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