[ftomassetti]

..wow, this is a bit strong. I would encourage you to be more respectful of persons who work in this very specific field and share their ideas. There are always persons behind some work you insult so easily.

You know, there are over 2M persons who read our articles. A few hundred also bought a book or a video-course from us, but the vast majority just got some information from free, and we like it in this way. I do not think we got so many persons interested in what we do by lying.

If you have a different professional experience I would happy to learn from it.

[pqlao]

It is irrelevant how many people read your articles; the critics will also show up as readers in the statistics.

Let's start the professional experience with another person's view:

https://research.swtch.com/yyerror

"Seibel: And are there development tools that just make you happy to program?

Thompson: I love yacc. I just love yacc. It just does exactly what you want done. Its complement, lex, is horrible. It does nothing you want done.

Seibel: Do you use it anyway or do you write your lexers by hand?

Thompson: I write my lexers by hand. Much easier."

I happen to like both bison and flex, which are relatively easy to use and bug-free in my experience. Yet your article spreads hundreds of lines of FUD about these tools, a strategy that many ANTLR people use.

I have used ANTLR. It is not intuitive, the documentation is horrible, if you happen to find some advice on Stackoverflow it is likely to be for another one of the incompatible versions.

I suppose if you use ANTLR long enough, these problems go away. But bison or Menhir don't have these problems in the first place.