[TUHS] [tuhs] Dennis Ritchie's couch

[arnold at skeeve.com]

As a quite serious question, what do you use instead? Hand-written
recursive descent?  Some other form of machine generated parser?

Thanks,

Arnold

Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> And today, we understand parsing so well we don't need yacc.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:20 AM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > The last article of the latest issue of the Communications of the ACM
> > that appeared electronically earlier today is a brief interview with
> > this year's ACM Turing Award winners, Al Aho and Jeff Ullman.
> >
> > The article is
> >
> >         Last byte: Shaping the foundations of programming languages
> >         https://doi.org/10.1145/3460442
> >         Comm. ACM 64(6), 120, 119, June 2021.
> >
> > and it includes a picture of the two winners sitting on Dennis
> > Ritchie's couch.
> >
> > I liked this snippet from Jeff Ullman, praising fellow list member
> > Steve Johnson's landmark program, yacc:
> >
> > >> ...
> > >> At the time of the first Fortran compiler, it took several
> > >> person-years to write a parser.  By the time yacc came around,
> > >> you could do it in an afternoon.
> > >> ...
> >
> >
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