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Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

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The Importance of a Parser Generator

A lot of culture around parsers and a lot of cultural tension around programming languages in industry versus academia. There's a certain amount of math envy in the PL community. The ideal programming language paper lets you prove things about a programming language. So they really like, you know, when they do parsers, they really like formalisms. And that also sort of leads them in a direction of they like parser generators.

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