Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: "BartC" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Good practical language and OS agnostic text? Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:43:00 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <12-04-042@comp.compilers> References: <12-04-019@comp.compilers> <12-04-026@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1334891969 85700 64.57.183.58 (20 Apr 2012 03:19:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: parse, design Posted-Date: 19 Apr 2012 23:19:29 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:585 wrote in message news:12-04-026@comp.compilers... >> [Sorry to burst your bubble, but I knew people writing compilers for >> DOS, and they understood parsing theory just fine. Although I agree >I need a way to get started and I can't > seem to understand the math I have seen so far and I have nobody to talk > it over with so I really need something more practical. You don't need any maths to get started. Perhaps that was to do with parsing; just google for "recursive descent parsers", you might find some examples that don't use a curly-brace language. -- Bartc