A nice survey of #ProgrammingLanguages that allow you to omit semicolons:

“No Semicolons Needed”, Terts Diepraam (https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470200

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/09wmcz/no_semicolons_needed

#Programming #PLDI #Parsing #Lexing #Syntax #Grammar #Compilers

Why #Lexing and #Parsing Should Be Separate

"Summary: Do the easy thing with the fast algorithm, and the hard thing with the slow algorithm. Lexing and parsing are different things."

#parsers

https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Why-Lexing-and-Parsing-Should-Be-Separate

Love 😍 such articles that cover a topic in depth:

“Modern Perfect Hashing For Strings” [2023], Wojciech Muła (http://0x80.pl/notesen/2023-04-30-lookup-in-strings.html).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764176

#Hashing #PerfectHashing #Lexing #LexicalAnalysis #Programming #Algorithms #Trie #gperf #Tokenization

Mini-rust in Rust 005: Our lexer should be an iterator

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/ionrCpsAgYJTUHgcaaVFFR

Mini-rust in Rust 004: Refactoring our lexer

https://video.infosec.exchange/videos/watch/c15ce6a7-b800-4e7f-bc1c-d75d5a2431d8

Mini-rust in Rust 003: Much prettier errors

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/hdTGJf9tPZcd4NCLxhB4sh

Mini-rust in Rust 002: Errors while lexing

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/1W69DAs934xD5kt81aPADn

Mini-rust in Rust 001: Lexing an int

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/1fxVSgKQ1afpa1Ny37LBp7

How to Train Your Scrappy Programmer devotes an entire chapter to parsing. Every programmer needs to parse inputs. Learn four different techniques for cracking open even the hardest content.

https://voyagesincode.com/products/the-wild-world-of-parsing

#parsing #lexing #tokenization #NimbleParsec #yecc #leex

1. Writing a programming language - the Lexer

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/ja8bdAJjNv2KhxU8QvWdbn