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Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers
Episode 118

Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers

In this episode we're talking to Eelco Visser about parsing text. We start at the basics - what is parsing? - covering classic tools such as Yacc and classic parsing approaches such as LALR before examining how more recent approaches such as scannerless parsing can make parsing easier and enable previously impractical use cases.

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

November 27, 200854m 33s

Show Notes

In this episode we're talking to Eelco Visser about parsing text. We start at the basics - what is parsing? - covering classic tools such as Yacc and classic parsing approaches such as LALR before examining how more recent approaches such as scannerless parsing can make parsing easier and enable previously impractical use cases.