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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
January 8, 2018 12:16
Subject:
Re: We need a language design process.
Message ID:
20180108114950.GH3106@iabyn.com
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:01:25PM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
> It seemed like a possible way forward would be to ditch YACC entirely and
> restate the actual language parsing in Perl

Rewriting the perl parser in perl would involve a massive slowdown in
compile time.

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