http://www.osnews.com/story/20028/The_A-Z_of_Programming_Languages_YACC Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:06:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?322391 http://osnews.com/thread?322391 Nice job on the link there Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Asystole) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?322407 http://osnews.com/thread?322407 Speaking of yacc... http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080708155228 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ohxten) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?322408 http://osnews.com/thread?322408 I prefer the feature set in Flex/Bison to Lex/YACC; however, that being said, Lex/YACC were incredibly innovative for their time, and their impact is still being felt today, 35 years later. I shudder at the memory of one of my grad school professors, who required us to hand-code a LALR parser/generator without the use of Lex/YACC (but it certainly taught me a thing or two about some of the reduction problems faced by YACC, how YACC works, etc). Kudos to Stephen C. Johnson: You saved my ass on more than one project. ;-)Edited 2008-07-10 22:20 UTC Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?322479 http://osnews.com/thread?322479 I've used Bison myself and quite appreciate that tool but I feel that for large compiler projects with insane syntax, some people are going back to hand crafted parsers, that was done in GCC to handle C++ syntax with all error processing...

There are many aternative to Bison/Yacc, like ANTLR or Spirit, and for functional languages, "parser combinators" and monads... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Treza) Comments