<div dir="ltr">The concepts remained the same (see the Dragon book of Aho&Ullman; a great book, BTW).<div>As long as the new libraries and parsers implement the same algorithms, everything is OK.</div><div>From what I see, the only fundamental thing that changed since those ancient days, is the higher need to support streaming data.</div><div>Most of the parsers in the past, assumed that the entire file is available;</div><div>Today, in most of the cases, you must start parsing when only the beginning of the data is available, and continue in chunks.</div><div>It may look funny but until recently you could not find HTML to DOM parser that could start its work before all of the file was available.</div><div>Well, too much speaking off topic, sorry for that... ;-)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Dov Grobgeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dov.grobgeld@gmail.com" target="_blank">dov.grobgeld@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another issue is that if you today need to write a parser in lex/yacc, then you probably made a bad decision along the way. There are today lots of well supported meta formats with excellent and well tested parsers, e.g. json, xml, yaml, config/ini, and your ROI is better spent integrating one of these than reinventing the wheel.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(That said from someone who invented a meta format (and used lex/yacc) which I used for a number of years until I switched to using json. See: <a href="http://xnm.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://xnm.sourceforge.net/</a> .)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dov<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Eli Marmor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@netmask.it" target="_blank">eli@netmask.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I see that the thread is still alive, so just wanted to say that it's a de-ja-vu for me.<div>I've used to be a LEX/YACC master somewhere in the previous century (i.e. the previous millennium...).</div><div>I not only used it for writing compilers, interpreters and parsers, but also built a cool library based on LEX, as well as my own LEX version to support 8 bit (it supported only 7 bits in the beginning...).</div><div><br></div><div>I guess that it will not help anybody today, because many years have passed, and I probably don't remember enough...</div><div>But it's nostalgic to remember these years...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-7947299162343759071h5">On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Aviram Jenik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aviram@jenik.com" target="_blank">aviram@jenik.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-7947299162343759071h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>We're looking for a consultant that can help us with a short gig to figure out why </div><div>a piece of BISON/Flex code (used to render code into an interpreter) compiles under Debian 7 but not under Debian 9.</div><div><br></div><div>T<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">he error is pretty vague so I rather not paste it here as it doesn't actually helps anyone who hasn't seen the full code.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Any referrals would be appreciated; we're in Ra'anana industrial area.</span></div><span class="m_-7947299162343759071m_3947670148129251983HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">- Aviram</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div class="m_-7947299162343759071m_3947670148129251983m_1089426721917010149gmail-yj6qo m_-7947299162343759071m_3947670148129251983m_1089426721917010149gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"></div></div></font></span></div>
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