Name: Anonymous 2014-09-16 23:41
Are they really better than handmade parsers? The code they produce is fucking ugly, it's cluttered with cryptic variable names and you need to read entire books to understand how they really work. Yet everyone claims writing parsers is stupid because we've had parser generators for years and they will always produce much better results.
How true is this statement? Is it akin to the ``you don't need to write ASM because compilers are much better than you'' bullshit? I, for one, have never been in a situation where I need to write my own assembly, but that doesn't make GCC any less of a piece of shit.
How true is this statement? Is it akin to the ``you don't need to write ASM because compilers are much better than you'' bullshit? I, for one, have never been in a situation where I need to write my own assembly, but that doesn't make GCC any less of a piece of shit.