Archived – this site ended its life on 2022.01.02. For the next microblogging site from Chris Krycho, see v1.microblog.chriskrycho.com.

Parser tutorials are all like the now draw the f–––ing owl” meme. Here’s how to use this to implement a trivial calculator! From here, you can see how it’s trivial to implement a full programming language!” …and then you look at any production parser and: no.