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Re:Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers by jtolmar on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:38PM (#12160615)
> These days you don't have to understand LR parsing or touch a parser-generator

What would a modern parser use instead?

Or is it just that for most compiler work the parser has already been written?

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Re:Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers by dozzie on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:44PM (#12160657)
LL parsing library, or better yet, library for PEG grammars. You know, to add another dependency to already bloated program and not to care about having O(n) parsing time/memory.
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