From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's couch
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:41:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1EA570C7-10FB-4E01-8D9C-4789F1F1840E@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn2jwY+jdn6oH9p2VOWANgW90EVJBbCmG0D8KyAzVqwQhA@mail.gmail.com>
> On Jul 4, 2021, at 4:40 PM, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:
>
> I wasn't very good at making jokes at the best of times, but I thought
> the innate tabular nature of a yacc parser and the role of yyparse()
> and the syntax yacc is written in would have got us there.
The difference is that one can incorporate a precedence parser for expressions
in a recursive parser easily, without needing yacc by handcrafting the table.
-- Bakul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-05 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-26 0:12 [TUHS] [tuhs] " Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-05-26 0:37 ` Rob Pike
2021-05-26 3:03 ` Larry McVoy
2021-05-26 4:02 ` Rob Pike
2021-05-26 6:20 ` Bakul Shah
2021-05-26 6:52 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 2:13 ` scj
2021-07-02 3:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 3:34 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 4:40 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 6:29 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-02 7:00 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-02 17:17 ` [TUHS] " Tony Finch
2021-07-04 23:40 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-05 3:41 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2021-05-26 5:13 ` [TUHS] [tuhs] " arnold
2021-05-26 4:10 ` Avindra G
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