16 Jul
2003
16 Jul
'03
8:42 p.m.
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 02:23 PM, Adriaan van Os wrote:
"Mark Mitchell of CodeSourcery has contributed a new, hand-crafted recursive-descent C++ parser sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The new parser is more standard conforming and fixes many bugs (about 100 in our bug database alone) from the old YACC-derived parser."
See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-10/msg00573.html.
I remember friends telling me that hand-crafted recursive-descent parsers were "old fashioned", parser generators were the "real thing" .... Times may change ...
YACC, is that not a species of Cow?