From: gah4@u.washington.edu   
      
   On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 2:49:38 PM UTC-7, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
      
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   > All of these programs must be parsing. They have phrase structures   
   > and operator precedence with parentheses right the command line.   
      
   It seems to me that this is the important part. The simplest processing   
   of a command line might not count as parsing.   
      
   If one processes an arithmetic expression left to right, with no precedence,   
   that might not count as parsing. Is two different precedence levels enough?   
      
   My first thought of the question was for machine generated vs.   
   hand written parsers.  When does it get complicated enough to make   
   it worth using a parser generator?   
      
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