"Parsing: a timeline" <http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2014/09/chron.html> makes a great read. It puts things in broad perspective very succinctly and thus is very powerful, a pleasant contrast to mainstream technical articles. Also, it reads like a very good short story.
On the IRC, you mentioned about a revision describing parsing tools — looks a great idea. And one more thing: regular expressions have been used much for parsing and perhaps deserve a paragraph or two to describe their place in the big picture — algorithm- and tool-wise. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Jeffrey Kegler < [email protected]> wrote: > "Parsing: a timeline" > <http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2014/09/chron.html> > is now my most popular blog post ever, and yesterday was the busiest day on > my website ever. It's a surprise hit, because it's also the most technical > post I've ever dared put on the blog, and because it contains no examples > of code. Absence of a code example in the past has been pretty much a > sure-fire indicator that, however highly I think of a post, it is doomed to > sink to the bottom without a ripple. > > I think its secret may be that every line actually contains a lot of work > -- some of the observations are the result of months working with a > particular algorithm. I've studied parsing on and off since 1971, and have > done so full-time for the past 7 years, and perhaps readers sense the > thought and effort behind each short phrase. > > -- jeffrey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
