> It reminds me of remarks that Bjarne Stroustrup about the C++ parser. I
> can't find them now, and perhaps I am misremembering them, but as I remember
> it he said that he chose an LL1 parser for cfront because LL1 parsing was
> supposedly the best way. But he regretted the choice. He, like me, is much
> more comfortable with recursive-descent parsing. So he ended up constantly
> fighting the supposedly "better" LL1 tool.
>
see Bjarne Stroustrup, "The Design and Evolution of C++", pp. 69.
(fascinating book!)
I can type in the paragraph or two if anyone's really keen...
J^n
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