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Re:Ask HN: How did you learn parsing? by kazinator on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:16PM (#19639819)
The "Dragon Book" glosses over parsing? Yagoddabekidding.

It teaches how to write LALR(1) parser generators, with detailed expositions of the algorithms including step by step execution of shift-reduce parsing. There is a chapter on implementing regular expressions. It has examples of the use of the Lex and Yacc tools.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you learn parsing? by vector_spaces on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:31PM (#19639944)
My bad, I wasn't being very clear. What I meant with my second sentence was that it's thorough to the point of being a bit overwhelming for someone who's self-teaching. That said, I should probably revisit it and with a more recent edition.

Thanks for the response

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