Dennis Ritchie about yacc history details > In some ways the interesting thing is that the parser (probably for B, couldn't have been C based on radiocarbon da

Dennis Ritchie about yacc history details > In some ways the interesting thing is that the parser (probably for B, couldn't have been C based on radiocarbon dating evidence) was tiny and dead simple using recursive descent for most parts, a precedence table for expressions. But out of the intellectual culture-meets-culture encounter, an enduring tool was created. https://yarchive.net/comp/handwritten_parse_tables.html https://yarchive.net/comp/handwritten_parse_tables.html