Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers
Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers  
Podcast: Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Published On: Thu Nov 27 2008
Description: 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.