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The traditional theories about parsing and their implementations in tools like yacc, lex, antlr, etc. are not that important in practice. I also used them in some university course…

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Keep also in mind, that it is ultra-fast ( http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=pe... ).

Yes, there are always too many ideas to explore and too less time. However if you want to look into a static typed functional language I would go with Haskell as it tries harder to…

> It has no syntax (of its own) in that it hijacks s-expression syntax instead. When you want to write Lisp code, you actually write some data structures in the s-expression data f…

I am a fan of Scheme but never got that statement. Why do people say Scheme/Lisp has no syntax? I mean clearly it has a _simple_ syntax, i.e. an expression is either an atom (an id…

I am not so sure with that. Say, your program is used in a shell script and is invoked badly - you might want to print its usage then. If you exit normally your shell script might …