Ralph Caraveo@grumpygamer - very general question: in the realm of building parsers/compilers what books, tools, courses helped you get started in this domain? Also, do you use parser generators or perhaps hand-roll the typical recursive descent parsers? Curious what you did back in the Scumm days vs now. New to Mastadon, and it’s weird.
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)@deckarep SCUMM was written Yacc. Dinky is also done in Yacc. I learned Yacc from a programmer (Chip Morningstar) at Lucasfilm. Everything else I just figured out on my own.
@grumpygamer - I’ve never used YACC but have used ANTLR which has been pretty slick for me. Thanks for sharing!
@deckarep ANTLR is also good. I stick to Yacc because I know it well.