[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-05, Paul Hardy <p.g.hardy at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> You can write a full-blown parser in Macro-32 if you really want to.
>> It doesn't mean that any sane person would want to do that when there
>> are better languages available. :-)
>
> I?m not sure a sane person would/should write a parser in any language,
> given the effort that has been put into  making toolkit ones available.
>

Assuming a suitable grammar, it's quite easy to write a handcrafted
recursive descent parser. I've done it a number of times over the years.

Simon.

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