"compile" vs. "tokenize" (was Re: Password Problem)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:36:14AM -0400, Fairlight thus spoke:
> With neither thought nor caution, Bill Vermillion blurted:

> > Then there is the classic 'yacc' Yet Another Compiler Compiler -
> > even though it really is a parser generator and that generates some
> > of the most obnoxious looking C code you'll ever want to look at.

> You've obviously never looked at perlcc's output.  :)

Have you looked at yacc?

...

> > I don't see that the target has to exist in hardware.  There are
> > plenty of emulators extant and some often used commercial ones -
> > such as the one that permits MS programs compiled for the Intel
> > platform to run on the Apple PowerPC program.   

> And I used to use an emulator to run Mac software on linux
> under X. But what's your point? Keyword: emulator.

And you said 'machine', and took Ken to task when he mentioned a
virtual machine., and that's what an emulator is, a virtual
machine.


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