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Parsing and all that:

Hello again! I’m picking up my series on Automata, with this post that goes into what I had always meant to get to: parsers. We’ll check out the old-school linear time parsing algorithms, which only need to go over the input once, without backtracking or caching. We’ll check out LL and LR, parse tables, recursive descent and recursive ascent. Welcome to the world of deterministic parsing…