I know most people anymore use lex/yacc or some derivative of these   
   tools to create scanner/parser modules for their compiler projects.  I   
   was wondering if anyone has developed a scanner or parser that they   
   personally hand-wrote?  If so, I would like to know what language you   
   used and what type of grammar you parsed.  If you feel divulgent,   
   please tell me a little bit about you're implementation or what you   
   did for intermediate representation.  I'm curious and just a bit nosy   
   and would like to know how you're experience went doing things this   
   way.  Thanks.   
   [I hand-wrote a scanner for Fortran 77 about 30 years ago.  It worked but   
   it was pretty gross because Fortran's lexical structure is so strange. -John]   
      
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