Re: ANY(ONE can code

From	Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: ANY(ONE can code
Date	2025-08-22 02:18 -0700
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On 8/22/2025 1:57 AM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
> You learn that when you write your 1st grammar parser
> using YACC or bison.   :-)

But, we call them DFA/NFA -- something hardware people never
get exposed to.  So, they don't think in terms of grammars
but, rather, just collections of states and events.  It
makes documenting what the automaton is intended to do
considerably harder.  Especially for anything beyond a
trivial machine (consider the state explosion problem that
you can "bury/hide" in a grammar)

[You can also get flex -- though not lex -- to build some
crude DFAs.  And, any regex compiler.  A *lot* closer to
self-documenting than anything you can build in hardware!]

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