Thanks! I usually prefer to let discussions like that in Hackernews develop. After, to the accusation of a bias in favor of Marpa, I must plead guilty. :-)
I think having a clear POV is important, and the literature has suffered from a Dragnet style "Just the math, please" approach. I think that's part of what's left the field so confused -- people don't state what they're trying to do, and why they're preferring the particular approach that they are. Grune and Jacobs was IMHO a step in the right direction. I think my clearly stated POV gives the reader a start, and the careful references enable him to delve deeper, and draw his own conclusions. On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, the Hackernews posting of your timeline has developed into an > (uncharacteristically) interesting and useful discussion. I'd be curious to > see your responses to some of the questions and omissions pointed out there. > > Fantastic reading, by the way. I particularly enjoy > just-opinionated-enough-to-be-interesting surveys like this :-) > > Zellyn > > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 11:54:02 AM UTC-4, Jeffrey Kegler wrote: >> >> I have written version 3 of my most popular blog post: "Parsing: A >> Timeline" <https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3>. >> >> There are enough changes that it could be considered a new work. It is >> several times as long, and includes sources. >> >> The previous versions focused entirely on parsing trends that affected >> Marpa's development. In Version 3 the focus is wider, and a lot of the new >> material concerns matters of major interest in mainstream parsing, but >> which had little or no impact on Marpa. One of these issues is operator >> expression parsing. A second is combinator parsing and monads. >> >> Comments are welcome. >> > -- > 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.
