[jtolmar]

> These days you don't have to understand LR parsing or touch a parser-generator

What would a modern parser use instead?

Or is it just that for most compiler work the parser has already been written?

[dozzie]

LL parsing library, or better yet, library for PEG grammars. You know, to add another dependency to already bloated program and not to care about having O(n) parsing time/memory.