[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 6:55:06 PM UTC+12, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> I once inherited a cross assembler based on TPARSE.

Nowadays I don’t think I would use it. Lexical analysis is always best hand-coded.

Even syntax analysis seems best that way. These days nobody bothers with anything as complex as rule-driven LR(k) parsers; it’s LL(1) recursive descent all the way.