Comment by rualca
5 years ago
> It turns out that whatever limitations there are to that approach hardly matter in practice (...)
How do you know if you do not learn about parsers?
Do you see where I am going with this?
It's absurd to claim that parsers are not fundamental and central to develop compilers. That statement is patently false, specially considering that some programming languages are notoriously challenging to parse.
> That statement is patently false, specially considering that some programming languages are notoriously challenging to parse.
Sure, if you create an artificial problem in the first place, you need an artificial solution for it. That's why careful language design is even more important than parsers.