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by AlexeyBrin 2224 days ago
Tangential - in your work in progress compiler book https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch-the-... are you going to write yourself the lexer and parser or use Flex and Bison like in the article ?
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In the book, lexing and parsing is done from scratch. I think tools like Flex and Bison are very handy, but for the book, my focus is on learning value.