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No. It means that the parsing code is trivial to make instead of using some kind of LALR, SLR, Earley monstrosities with hundreds of megabytes of grammar tables
by cladopa 2y ago
No. It means that the parsing code is trivial to make instead of using some kind of LALR, SLR, Earley monstrosities with hundreds of megabytes of grammar tables in memory, just to understand the output of a program like "ls" or "find" or "grep".
JSON is ALSO easy for machines to read. I know because I made several JSON parsers myself. I have also made parsers for computer languages(with things like PEG) and natural languages and there is a world of difference.