Comment by munchler

The general notion of a “combinator” comes from functional programming, so parser combinators are native to FP. They can definitely be done in imperative languages also, but in my experience (C# specifically) are much more clunky. A dynamically typed language like Python might be suitable, because the interpreter is lenient, but I’m dubious about C++.

One thing you will definitely need in any language to produce a concise parser is the ability to define custom operators, like >>. and .>>. These are the “combinators”.