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Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) by cjfd on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:16AM (#27640121)
Software engineers like efficiently running software. Mathematicians like beautiful definitions. Scientists like non-trivial discoveries.

This paper.... uh.... what exactly is it good for?

I suppose it could be kind of nice as some kind of undergraduate paper writing project kind of thing but it looks too professional for that.... I am kind of at a loss why this was written. Maybe it is some strange kind of satire....

Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) by squiddev on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:40AM (#27640232)
It's written for sigbovik 2021 [1][2], which is very much a joke conference. Other papers this year were "Lowestcase and Uppestcase letters: Advances in Derp Learning" and "On the dire importance of mru caches for human survival (against Skynet)".

[1]: http://www.sigbovik.org/ [2]: http://www.sigbovik.org/2021/proceedings.pdf

Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) by m3koval on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:41AM (#27640239)
SIGBOVIK is a parody of computer science conferences. It's a running joke hosted on April Fools Day every year at CMU - and apparently a quite convincing one. ;-)

Source: I attended SIGBOVIK a few times in grad school.

Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) by ukj on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:18AM (#27640128)
This paper is good for parsing/validating your source code (from the view-point of your compiler/interpreter).

Code is data after all.