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Also interesting is the fact that parsers and languages are never mentioned. Regular expression engines are parsers for regular languages, one step below context-free languages.

I wonder why there's no context-free language parsers in standard libraries. The Earley parser can take grammars as input without necessarily having to generate code, it would be a great algorithm for a standard context-free parser.



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