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"Any more or less real programming language is more complex than an arithmetic expression language with only four operations so any 'lessons' from such a simple
by inimino 3y ago
"Any more or less real programming language is more complex than an arithmetic expression language with only four operations so any 'lessons' from such a simple example is inapplicable to anything else."
- olliej 3y agoThe point is that this article says it wants to introduce parsing. But parsing a language that can be parsed by string splitting is not meaningful. If there isn't even the most basic complexity then it's hardly worth claiming you're introducing parsing.
- inimino 3y agoIt also says it's LL(1) recursive descent, so you should already know what that includes.