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randomNumber7today at 11:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

I can recommend anyone reading pratts original paper. Its written in a very cool and badass style.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/512927.512931


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DonaldPShimodatoday at 1:57 PM

> Its written in a very cool and badass style.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? Do you mean you like the prose, or the typesetting, or...?

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tonyedgecombetoday at 1:52 PM

For some reason I struggled to get my head around Pratt parsing. Then I read an offhand comment on Reddit that said to start with a recursive descent parser and add table parsing to that. Once I did that it all clicked.

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