[prestonbriggs]

Compilers have parsers, not languages. Many languages have more than one compiler (e.g., C), and the various compilers may use different techniques for parsing.

[eatonphil]

That's right! But HN has a title length limit. See the (actual) blog post title and the blog post contents. :)

[prestonbriggs]

Indeed. But consider the 2nd sentence, the conclusion, and the twitter post.

On the other hand, I certain agree with your idea about teach/using handwritten recursive-descent parsers. Here's an old book that presents it pretty clearly, along with a nice approach for error handling. Maybe you can find it in a library. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540082408

[Zababa]

To be even more pedentic: implementations have parsers. Some programming languages are not compiled.

[chrisseaton]

Nobody was mistaken about this fact.