Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021

Re:Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying majo... by PartiallyTyped on Saturday August 21, 2021 @04:38PM (#28260363)

Do you know Haskell? If not, I suggest you get accustomed to the language, and then read about monadic parsing [1] through Graham Hutton's work. Graham is a famous CS professor at U Notthingham, appears often in ComputerPhile [3,4], and wrote a book on Haskell [2].

I had to write an interpreter, optimizer and engine for a declarative language plus bottom up knowledge base in Haskell as part of an assignment, and an exam in a graduate course on advanced programming. Haskell made the problem significantly easier compared to languages I am much more comfortable with, like Python or C.

[1] www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/pearl.pdf

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Haskell-Graham-Hutton/dp/...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eis11j_iGMs

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Re:Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying majo... by PartiallyTyped on Sunday August 22, 2021 @07:26AM (#28264589)

Okay, this is really perplexing, this reply was at +5 and is now at -1. I don't understand why and I'd appreciate any explanation.

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