PE>> How come I didn't see any mention of yacc at uni?

 RS> Thats just saying your uni didnt have much coverage in that area. You
 RS> can even say its a bit esoteric and that its not totally unacceptable.
 RS> OTOH didnt you say yours had some very pure maths type stuff ?

Not much pure maths, no.  I did some Graph Theory (Maths subject) because I
ran out of Computer Science subjects though.

 RS> Some have stuff like a compiler writing type focus. OTOH you can argue
 RS> that the number who really need stuff like that has to be very small.
 RS> Its all starting to get rather academic and maybe impractical.

The thing is, I did do compiler-writing.  And recursive descent is what we
were taught, and you kept a list of all the tokens that you were expecting
to come, and if one of them didn't come, you reported an error.  You could
dynamically add and drop expected tokens.

 RS> Then there is the whole unix focus some have and some dont.

Yeah, they don't push the Unix line at Murdoch.  BFN.

Paul

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