[fpc-pascal] lax and Yacc

[Adriaan van Os]

Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> Alain Michaud wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I have just one quick question in order to understand better:
>>
>> Does FPC  use lex (or flex) and yacc ?
>>
>>
>> I just noticed that h2pas uses it and I was wondering if fpc works 
>> like
>> that too!
>
> No. Lex and yacc are too slow and too unflexible for production 
> compilers.

Even gcc C++ and C have moved to a handwritten parser recently.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os