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Comment by marcosdumay

6 days ago

The problem with recursive descent parsers is that they don't restrict you into using simple grammars.

But then, pushing regular languages theory into the curriculum, just to rush over it so you can use them for parsing is way worse.

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aleph_minus_one  5 days ago

> But then, pushing regular languages theory into the curriculum, just to rush over it so you can use them for parsing is way worse.

At least in the typical curriculum of German universities, the students already know the whole theory of regular languages from their Theoretical Computer Science lectures quite well, thus in a compiler lecture, the lecturer can indeed rush over this topic because it is just a repetition.