Our compiler class at UK, taught by Prof. Kubota w…
Jeff Roberts - Jun 6, 2007
Our compiler class at UK, taught by Prof. Kubota was a joke. Lotsa theory scribbled over the board and one project that it took most of the class the whole semester to complete. I wish we HAD done some hands-on with lex and yacc - I get the concepts behind it all but it’s still easier for me to write a strtok() parser for simple stuff. That and so few people know enough to maintain a lex/yacc parser that you’re just asking for trouble. Drives me nuts when someone “shows off” by writing a parser for something nearly as simple as a property file.