July 19th, 2000, 06:58 PM
Parsing
Tutorials and information on Parsing methods seems to be a very under documented technique. There may be good books out there, but there seems to be little in parsing algorithms published on the web, at least in a begginers point of view. I am a C++ programmer, and want to avoid the generated parsers such as yacc, at least until I have a better understanding to do it myself. But when searching the Internet, I notice there is next to nothing on techniques and other thoughts on it. One can find an abundance of papers on the thoughts of parsing, on the thoughts of lexing, but actually implementing these are far from easy. Tutorials and other type of documents on parsing, would be handy. Parsing is a technique that many are underdeveloped in, but it can come in handy for many things, Game programming, Internet programming, Language Development. It would be useful to find information related on this. One solution is to get the Dragon book, Compilers, Principals, techniques and tools by by Alfred V. Aho (ISBN: 0201100886) but the fact of the matter is, sometimes its not available or too much for the needed solution. Overall, it would be nice to see some tutorials on this subject since it is a valuble tool to any programmer.
Tutorials and information on Parsing methods seems to be a very under documented technique. There may be good books out there, but there seems to be little in parsing algorithms published on the web, at least in a begginers point of view. I am a C++ programmer, and want to avoid the generated parsers such as yacc, at least until I have a better understanding to do it myself. But when searching the Internet, I notice there is next to nothing on techniques and other thoughts on it. One can find an abundance of papers on the thoughts of parsing, on the thoughts of lexing, but actually implementing these are far from easy. Tutorials and other type of documents on parsing, would be handy. Parsing is a technique that many are underdeveloped in, but it can come in handy for many things, Game programming, Internet programming, Language Development. It would be useful to find information related on this. One solution is to get the Dragon book, Compilers, Principals, techniques and tools by by Alfred V. Aho (ISBN: 0201100886) but the fact of the matter is, sometimes its not available or too much for the needed solution. Overall, it would be nice to see some tutorials on this subject since it is a valuble tool to any programmer.