Comments on: Episode 118: Eelco Visser on Parsers http://www.se-radio.net/2008/11/episode-118-eelco-visser-on-parsers/ The Podcast for Professional Software Developers Tue, 14 May 2013 01:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: clifft135 http://www.se-radio.net/2008/11/episode-118-eelco-visser-on-parsers/#comment-219 clifft135 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-219 Eelco Visser is very articulate in his subject; and the person doing the interview did great summaries as they went along, as well as guiding the conversation in a very understandable manner.

Best Regards,

Cliff Thompson

]]> By: Pete F http://www.se-radio.net/2008/11/episode-118-eelco-visser-on-parsers/#comment-223 Pete F Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-223 I agree that Laurence did a great job of steering the interview (and also, of making sure than everything was explained as they went along). Having two different accents on the interview seemed to work well too.

I have been wondering since the Converge interview what kind of parser Converge used (he named it but I didn’t catch it) -aha an “Earley” parser then. Chuckled as I heard Laurence debating parsing speed vs ease of use whilst pretending to be neutral on the issue :-)

If I keep listening, I might find out why Converge needed a new language (as opposed to being say, Python based).

pf

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