Comment by pfalcon
6 years ago
> Not if you're writing an IDE.
Phew, how boring! I know compiler people who (apparently) spend their time at dayjobs writing IDEs, then get back home and write books on ol' good "batch mode" processing. Can't wait for them to add a JIT chapter. But imagining they would work instead on "writing IDE" chapter would be rather funny ;-).
Heh. :)
You could consider this an observation that writing a batch mode parser is so much easier that I'm comfortable writing a book about it, but I still don't know enough to write about IDE-grade parsers and analyzers.