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Dennis Ritchie about yacc history details

> In some ways the interesting thing is that the parser (probably for B, couldn't have been C based on radiocarbon dating evidence) was tiny and dead simple using recursive descent for most parts, a precedence table for expressions. But out of the intellectual culture-meets-culture encounter, an enduring tool was created.

https://yarchive.net/comp/handwritten_parse_tables.html




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