On Friday 29 April 2011 12:26:35 am Lex Trotman wrote:
Hey Matthew,
- I believe LaTex, Markdown, and reStructuredText are Markup
Languages.
Is there a (scintilla) lexer for reStructuredText? With a quick look at lexer names, I didn't see one.
With that same quick look, I came across the lexer LexTxt2tags.cxx and looked at that a little--it looks like some of the stuff there is (or could be easily adaptable for my lexer for Foswiki / TWiki. What is that lexer for--is there a markup language named Txt2tags?
Oh, ok, I googled, yes there is, and I guess I'll spend a little time (a few minutes) looking at that. (For Lex: it will save me from thinking about lexing UTF-8, recursive descent parsers, switch / case statements, and if / else chains ;-)
- I don't know COBOL but I think it's a programming language isn't
it?
Well, it was in the 1970s, but I do remember someone asking about it recently so it must be still used.
Actually, it was also in the 1950s. Or, at least, the first specification was completed in December, 1959, and it is still used, a lot--there is a lot of legacy code out there. But not (used) by me! ;-)
And, just for the record, no, I'm not that old. I'm actually the same age as Jack Benny. (Should I explain the joke / humor? Jack Benny was a comedian who, whenever he was asked his age, claimed to be 29.)
Randy Kramer