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Re:Parsing Algorithms by mehrdadn on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:11PM (#24900774)
Ah okay. Note that GLR isn't exactly modern (1974). However, I would also remove "modern" as a requirement here... what really matters is how good the algorithm is, not how old it is. "Modern" algorithms easily end up being less powerful than the old ones... they just end up becoming popular due to other factors, e.g. simplicity.
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Re:Parsing Algorithms by samatman on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:37PM (#24901080)
"Advanced" would have been more expressive, agreed.

In the sense that LALR and LL with limited lookahead are the introductory parsing algorithms which everyone knows, and there's a reason for that.

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