One of the best thing about parser combinators is that I was writing them before knowing what it was. My first programming language being C[1], all you had was

One of the best thing about parser combinators is that I was writing them before knowing what it was. My first programming language being C[1], all you had was functions and composition, it's the natural pattern to write parsers. [1] - Well, in truth it was GML from Game Maker 6, but I quickly went to learn C :p