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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by delhanty on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:06AM (#37853627)
> C is almost LR(1),

Does that include the C preprocessor?

Somehow, I recall someone here (maybe it was user walterbright) suggesting that implementing a C preprocessor was a lot of work - maybe months - so one might consider using Facebook's MIT licensed preprocessor:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/CParser

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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by User23 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:01PM (#37864756)
The C preprocessor is a purely functional language![1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230714010215/http://conal.net/...

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