>And so we end up re-writing parsers where yacc would do,
Had me going until there. Rolling your own parser to avoid yacc sounds like an absolutely splendid idea. Techniques like parsing expression grammars are worth some mild sense of "NIH", and in any case there are plenty of PEG libraries to take advantage of as well.
Had me going until there. Rolling your own parser to avoid yacc sounds like an absolutely splendid idea. Techniques like parsing expression grammars are worth some mild sense of "NIH", and in any case there are plenty of PEG libraries to take advantage of as well.