Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> writes:

> Yeah, well 40 years ago they didn't have parsers.   The purpose of
> having a field of computer science worthy of the name, is to advance
> the science not let this riff-raff dominate the practice.

Hah! 40 years ago I wrote a parser generator (similar to yacc, that I did not 
know) and used it to generate a parser for Algol 68.
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