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Conference turris::languages

Title:Languages
Notice:Speaking In Tongues
Moderator:TLE::TOKLAS::FELDMAN
Created:Sat Jan 25 1986
Last Modified:Wed May 21 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:394
Total number of notes:2683

351.0. "Where is Galileo ?" by JUDYL::SWARTZ () Wed Mar 03 1993 16:16


I need to use GALILEO (or something similar) for a
project. I'm unable to access the kit on RACHEL::OPSD$:[GALILEO]
as indicated by a note in the GALILEO notesfile. The
status message returned is:

%DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening RACHEL::OPSD$:[GALILEO]*.*;* as input
-RMS-E-FND, ACP file or directory lookup failed
-SYSTEM-F-NOSUCHOBJ, network object is unknown at remote node

Also, I tried contacting Bill Barabash, the maintainer, by
e-mail and by phone. I've gotten no response to my e-mail
in a week. So either Bill has been TSFO'd or he's on vacation.

Also, There's no activity in the GALILEO notesfile since
late October of last year.

Does anyone know if Bill is still around ?. And if he is not
around then does anyone know who has taken over ownership of GALILEO ?

From my perusings of various notesfiles, it seems that GALILEO
is the best general parsing tool available around the company.
Has anything happened to change that ?. Any new tools I should
know about ?

Ed
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351.1Try LMOPOST::RACHEL12138::PRAKASHMayank Prakash, Intelligent Information Applications Development Group.Thu Mar 04 1993 10:153
Rachel is now in a hidden area. LMOPOST (11.852) is the gateway.

  -mayank.
351.2NOTIME::SACKSGerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085Thu Mar 04 1993 10:411
Clearly it's not LMOPOST (too long).  It's LMOPST.
351.3LMOPST, not LMOPOST12138::PRAKASHMayank Prakash, Intelligent Information Applications Development Group.Thu Mar 04 1993 12:051
Mea culpa. Unix kind of spoils you, I guess.
351.4Who's Supporting GALILEO ?JUDYL::SWARTZTue Mar 09 1993 14:5820
RE: .2, .3. Thanks for the information
on how to access the kit.
I managed to copy over the GALILEO kit and I created
a simple .BNF and was able to get a sample
of my script parsed by the parser.

The question I've been asked by someone within
my group is: Is GALILEO supported by someone
within the corporation ?. Obviously, Bill
Barabash was the maintainer as indicated by
several topics in this notesfile and the
GALILEO notesfile. As I mentioned in .1 Bill
has not responded to any of my e-mail and
voice mail messages. So before I go off
and build a complicated language using GALILEO
I'd really like to know if someone out there 
is providing support.


Ed
351.5BHAJEE::JAERVINENNo Pentium insideFri Mar 12 1993 05:098
    If your application is complex, you might want to check Cocktail. It's
    a compiler development package much more powerful than GALILEO, and
    somewhat supported (though almost free).
    
    Available e.g. on DECWRL::"/pub/plan/gmd/".
    
    And then, of course, there's Bison and flex.
    
351.6Where's Bison and Flex ?JUDYL::SWARTZThu Apr 08 1993 16:3546
I did the usual search of the conference and could'nt 
find any reference.

1. Can someone tell me where I can pickup Bison and Flex.

2. Has anyone in the company done a comparision of 
Bison and Flex vs Cocktail vs Galileo. Even a simple
comparision ? Or can someone point me to another
conference where there has been some discussion of
the advantages/disadvantages for each of these tools.


Since, the GALILEO conference seems to be in-active at
this time and Bill Barabash has not responded to my
e-mail maybe this is the best place to ask GALILEO
questions.

The application I'm working on has three input files
as follows:

	1. Device Configuration File.

	Provides a description of the devices (disks)
	available on the test system and provides
	pointers to one or more device descriptor
	files.

	2. Device Descriptor

	Provides information about the disk structure.

	3. Test Description

	Describes a performance test to execute.


Can I write three separate GALILEO .BNF files, one
for each input file and then use these three in the
same application... selecting the appropiate parse
table based upon the input file the application has
opened ?

Or do I have to combine the .BNF files into a singular
file ?

Ed
351.7Location of bison & flex: DECWRL::"/pub/GNU"SNOGUM::BLAIRBlair Phillips, Canberra, OzMon Apr 12 1993 23:370