[photran-dev] Fortran Is Big

[Jeffrey Overbey <subscribe-photran-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth, I finally found a lex-/yacc-able C++ lexer and 
parser.  Although it's not particularly useful or accurate, I can 
finally give some numbers...

C
   Lex Spec: 175 lines
   Grammar: 472 lines

C++
   Lex Spec: 167 lines
   Grammar: 1054 lines

Fortran 95
   Lexers (total): 383+438+77+439+1499=2836 lines
   Grammar: 2477 lines

So there you go... in terms of syntax, Fortran is roughly five times as 
large as C and twice as large as C++, and lexing Fortran is a @&#*$ (but 
we already knew that).

Jeff