From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   SomeDeveloper wrote:   
      
   > [The main advantage of TXL is that it has a lot of I/O and tree   
   > building as part of the languge, whereas you have to implement   
   > them yourself if you used a yacc parser. -John]   
      
   Right. The determination and modeling of the semantical structure   
   (AST...), and the transformation of that structure, are different tasks,   
   which in traditional approaches require different programming languages   
   or libraries. IMO it's a big advantage, to have everything in a single   
   language. It's less important when very different techniques are   
   required, like in general-purpose multi-target compilers, which can be   
   separated into multiple, widely independent phases.   
      
   DoDi   
      
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