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0 pointsdragonelite2y ago0 comments

I thought the same when i did compiler course, but 8 years after that course i wrote tooling to mass refactor a java codebase by creating AST manipulate AST and convert the AST to code again.

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stevage2y ago

Oh, yeah, true. I have done a couple of pretty complex things that involved parsing code or manipulating ASTs and it was probably useful for that.

I attempted to write a parser for Wikitext once in ANTLR which was an interesting nightmare.

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0 pointsdragonelite2y ago0 comments

I thought the same when i did compiler course, but 8 years after that course i wrote tooling to mass refactor a java codebase by creating AST manipulate AST and convert the AST to code again.

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stevage2y ago

Oh, yeah, true. I have done a couple of pretty complex things that involved parsing code or manipulating ASTs and it was probably useful for that.

I attempted to write a parser for Wikitext once in ANTLR which was an interesting nightmare.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse