[paddim8]

What? Accused of only being done in academic environments? Never heard that. Academics seem to spend 99% of their time talking about parser generators and LR parsing for some reason while most production compilers have handwritten recursive descent parsers...

[jfyi]

Same here, recursive descent is what I have run into in the real world.

I'm just happy when parsing isn't being done with some absurdly long regex with no documentation.