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It seems like parsing is becoming a lost art. Maybe because it can't be easily approached by the iterative development style that is in fashion these days.
by gerbilly 11y ago
It seems like parsing is becoming a lost art.
Maybe because it can't be easily approached by the iterative development style that is in fashion these days.
- ufo 11y agoThe real lost art here is scripting languages. Even if you parse things yourself, configuration files still have a natural tendency to evolve into a crappy programming language over time. So instead of writing your own config file format you should just make a couple a quick bindings for a scripting language like Lua, Python or Ruby.