begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:30:20AM -0700: [snip] > Having spent an entire semester trying to work on a parser for a > language project back in college, and never having gotten it working > (despite our group being three of the better heads in the class), I > think it's fair to say that yes, parsers are hard. fucking hard.
The difficulty with making a parser depends on the complexity of the language being to be parsed.... and with how completely specified the grammar is. > but, when you do it right, and use the "right" tools (lex and yacc, > anybody? c'mon, you know you love 'em!), the results are worth it. Use the right tools, save a lot of effort. :) -Stewart -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
