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andrewchambers on July 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parsing PHP in Go

Go is pretty nice for parser/compiler applications because it is fast and the runtime doesn't take too long to startup.

pjmlp on July 28, 2014 | [–]

ML languages are way better, specially given sum types and pattern matching.

andrewchambers on July 28, 2014 | | [–]

I agree for tree manipulation - I don't necessarily agree for writing recursive descent parsers.

But I admit, I read the Ocaml and haskell compilers source code, and it was pretty nice.

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