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by randomNumber7 77 days ago
It's not for toy languages. Most big compilers use recursive descent parsing.
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ebiederm 77 days ago
Language design benefits from parser generators that can point out ambiguities and verify a language is easy to parse.
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marssaxman 77 days ago
It does not follow that a generated parser would make sense in production code.
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