On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 08:54:29AM -0400, Matthew Gordon via talk wrote:
I'd also recommend against Yacc. As others have said, it's a great tool and very powerful but a recursive descent parser will do the job 99% of the time and will be much easier. Writing a good unambiguous grammar for Yacc can be tricky and is much more difficult to debug than a recursive descent parser. A lot of languages now have "parser combinator" libraries which make it even easier to write a recursive descent parser. I'd do a google search to see if there's one available for your programming language of choice.
Language is C; environment is embedded board of consumer/business printers; and, the nature of work is QA, where I'm trying to introduce more automation. So, for C, what parser library would you use? I take it, there is difference between "parser generator" and "parse combinator". -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>