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- From: rooi@duteca3.et.tudelft.nl (Mark de Rooi)
- Subject: Re: Benefits of hand-coded bottom-up parsers
- Reply-To: 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
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-209@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: parse, courses
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- > 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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