The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book

Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by Solvency on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:20AM (#36147829)

I know nothing about compiler design or compiler parsing. How broadly applicable are the chapters on parsing? Will it make the average programmer instantly more equipped to, say, write a robust JSON parser?

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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by kaba0 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:31AM (#36147878)

I’m not convinced that it would actually be particularly good as a parsing book either.

But the average programmer should just use a CSV parser lib, why reinvent the wheel? For custom tasks learning about ANTLR is much more productive (a good parser generator)

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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by sanxiyn on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:23AM (#36147844)

Yes.

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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by jobhdez on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:19AM (#36148388)

I think you would have the knowledge to build a parser generator that then you can use to write a parser for json. But you can also also just learn how to use a parser generator. You’ll have to know a little bit about regular expressions for this

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