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by norrius 2987 days ago
For whatever reason, the link does not work for me. Google's cache doesn't seem to provide a copy, so here's one from the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180420113021/http://pub.gajend...

To the topic, I think this quote from the article is very important to note here: “Of course, I do not do all of this every day, but I have done all of it at one time or another and most of it regularly.”

It is nice to have an idea of how you write a parser for a language, but I do not believe the author advocates for being able to write one of the top of your head. Same with most other points.