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Completely agreed. Once I got the hang of hand-writing parsers, I never looked back; they're higher-quality, generally faster, easier to write, and are easier
by daeken 15y ago
Completely agreed. Once I got the hang of hand-writing parsers, I never looked back; they're higher-quality, generally faster, easier to write, and are easier to maintain than generated parsers.
- wglb 15y agoMy favorite compiler writer (dgc of mwc fame) says "Yacc makes the hard part of a compiler harder and the easy part easier".