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0 pointskazinator2y ago0 comments

People are misunderstanding my original comment.

You can parse quite a lot more than Lisp with techniques from 1965.

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People would misunderstand you less if you made yourself better understood.

Like using a hyperlink to code example.

You can search for parsing techniques that were available and practical in 1965: recursive descent, the shunting yard algorithm, and operator precedence parsing[0]. LR(k) parsing was described by Knuth in 1965, but I don't think it was considered practical yet due to the memory required by LR(1) tables.

[0]: 1963 operator precedence description: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/321172.321179

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