[wolfgke]

> Out of curiosity, where would one find an explanation (potentially dry, long, and complicated) of the algos you mention here?

> In other words - how did you get to know them?

My book recommendation: Dick Grune, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs - Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Second Edition). Many people will also recommend the "dragon book" (Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman - Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Second edition)), which is not a bad book.

If you want to dive deeply into parsing and want to read about all the details over hundreds of pages, the Grune-Jacobs book is clearly the recommdendation. On the other hand, if you just want to understand the theory behind the parsing stage of a compiler (as one part of a compiler - and there are lots of other parts, too), you will probably prefer the dragon book.