On 2014-01-22 05:29, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/
From the article: "Regex is just the wrong tool for lexing and parsing."I'm wonder why is there so many books about implementing compilers that spends, usually, quite a large chapter about regular expressions?
-- /Jacob Carlborg
