Re: Benefits of hand-coded bottom-up parsers

rooi@duteca3.et.tudelft.nl (Mark de Rooi)
Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:40:43 GMT

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From: rooi@duteca3.et.tudelft.nl (Mark de Rooi)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:40:43 GMT
Keywords: parse, courses
References: 93-01-190

> I don't really want to fan the flame wars, but I must stress the benefits
> of hand-coding an LR parser if your goal is to understand parsing.


Another way to gain real insight into LR parsing is to write your own LR
parser generator. A few years ago I wrote a yacc-like parser generator. It
was an Aha-erlebnis.


Mark
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