Re: Parser Generated vs. Hand Written Parsers

moop™ wrote:
> Hi,
> PGs have a great convenince over hand written parsers, but they also
> slow in speed and hard to read the generated code. I wonder besides
> these two obvious factors, what else hand written parsers are better
> than PGs? Thank you!


Write hand-crafted parsers if:


a) time is on your side;
b) you want to see for yourself how your top-down grammar and its
      First, Follow, and Generator sets work;
c) you want to speed up the resulting code somewhat, but with
      today's computer speed this is becoming negligible.


Otherwise, it would make more sense to learn how to use a parser
generator for this purpose.


Napi

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