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randomNumber7 4 hours ago

I can recommend anyone reading pratts original paper. Its written in a very cool and badass style.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/512927.512931

DonaldPShimoda an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Its written in a very cool and badass style.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? Do you mean you like the prose, or the typesetting, or...?

tonyedgecombe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

For some reason I struggled to get my head around Pratt parsing. Then I read an offhand comment on Reddit that said to start with a recursive descent parser and add table parsing to that. Once I did that it all clicked.