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   Louis Krupp to sebastien.fricker@gmail.com   
   Re: Best tools for writing an assembler?   
   24 Feb 14 15:39:50   
   
   From: lkrupp@pssw.com   
      
   On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:32:37 +0100, Sibastien Fricker   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 23/02/2014 17:22, noitalmost wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I wouldn't bother with any generation tools like flex or bison, unless   
   >> you want to gain experience with those tools for some other project. ..   
      
   >Sorry, but even if Flex/Bison are difficult to setup, writing a parser   
   >by hand is not a good way to work. ...   
      
   Everyone should hand-write a lexer and parser ... once.  If you're   
   designing the language syntax as you go, you'll design something   
   that's easy to scan and parse.  I agree with noitalmost that recursive   
   descent is the way to go.   
      
   Louis   
      
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