[grose]

Lexical Scanning in Go by Rob Pike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE

I love everything about this talk. It walks you through building a lexer from scratch in a simple and elegant way, through a very interesting use of coroutines. I appreciate the bits of humor in the talk as well.

[qwertyuiop924]

Rob Pike is far more pleasant than his acolytes (for lack of a better word). Pike makes me want to clap: cat-v makes me want to vomit. It's the DJB people with none of the charm.

[nicklaf]

+1 for mentioning the work of Michael Jackson in the beginning. I have to watch this one again.