Walter Bright wrote: > BCS wrote: >> (BTW I'm taking (but haven't yet finished) a compilers class so I >> might be missing something) > > That's one of my gripes about compiler classes, they expend enormous > effort on the simplest part of a compiler - the lexer/parser. > > In working on the D compiler, I easily spend less than 1% of the effort > on the lexer/parser. > > Plug: you should sign up for my compiler construction seminar! We don't > waste much time on the simple stuff, and do the hard bits instead. /Plug
Had the last one been in the summer and not during classes while I'm 2500 miles away, I would have.