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I would suggest Recursive Descent for general parsing, and Precedence Climbing for expressions. Once you get the hang of Recursive Descent, parsing becomes mechanical. And with Pre…

Thanks for the kind words. I was forced to change the name a few years back (1992) - it is now called TSE, or The Semware Editor. Unlearn Wordstar key bindings? Isn't that sacrileg…

I wrote one back in 1984-85 that I called QEdit, and have been using and updating it ever since.

I've created some compiler related tasks on RosettaCode. The goal is to create a simple compiler in small pieces: Scanner, Parser, Code Generator, and Virtual Machine Interpreter t…

Three that I've dabbled with are: - Euphoria (http://openeuphoria.org/) - Wren (http://wren.io/) - ChaiScript (http://chaiscript.com/) Of those three, Euphoria is possibly the most…

Back in 1984, I purchased Turbo Pascal 2, and had several decent contracts writing various sorts of software. In 1985 I wrote a simple programmers text editor in it (I really had n…