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Re:Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf] by chrisseaton on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:39PM (#22206653)
I see why you'd think that, but I meant over-complicating the implementation of languages, not their design.

> there was no other tools

I don't think you need tools. Just write your parser as a normal program directly in a general-purpose programming language. I'm not sure that parsing is so special as to require an external DSL.

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Re:Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf] by hasbot on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:02PM (#22206857)
No tool is ever necessary. But not using yacc is tedious, slow, error-prone, uninteresting, and utterly no fun.
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