"Parsing: a timeline" <http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2014/09/chron.html> makes a great read. It puts things in broad perspective very succinctly and thus is very powerful, a pleasant contrast to mainstream technical articles. Also, it reads like a very good short story.
On the IRC, you mentioned about a revision describing parsing tools — looks a great idea. And one more thing: regular expressions have been used much for parsing and perhaps deserve a paragraph or two to describe their place in the big picture — algorithm- and tool-wise. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Jeffrey Kegler < jeffreykeg...@jeffreykegler.com> wrote: > "Parsing: a timeline" > <http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2014/09/chron.html> > is now my most popular blog post ever, and yesterday was the busiest day on > my website ever. It's a surprise hit, because it's also the most technical > post I've ever dared put on the blog, and because it contains no examples > of code. Absence of a code example in the past has been pretty much a > sure-fire indicator that, however highly I think of a post, it is doomed to > sink to the bottom without a ripple. > > I think its secret may be that every line actually contains a lot of work > -- some of the observations are the result of months working with a > particular algorithm. I've studied parsing on and off since 1971, and have > done so full-time for the past 7 years, and perhaps readers sense the > thought and effort behind each short phrase. > > -- jeffrey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
