On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2013-10-15, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah, well 40 years ago they didn't have parsers. > > That seems an odd thing to say. People were assembling and compiling > computer programs long before 1973.
I'm using the word "parser" in the sense of a stand-alone application that became useful with the growing open source culture that was developing in the 70's. Prior to that you have punch cards where there's no meaningful definition of "parsing" because there are no tokens. Would you say you were "parsing" on an old digital machine where you input programs with binary switches? But after the advent of the dumb terminal, parsers started evolving, and that was the early 70's. I might be a year or two off, but I only gave one significant digit there. ;^) Cheers, -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
