I found the perfect book on parsing

carloscs

If batting eyelashes doesn't work (hard to imagine)... :) The first edition is available for download on the (seemingly legit) author site: PTAPG_1st_Edition[^]

Rick York

I looked again and the second entry at Amazon is the hardcover version, used and it is the one at $34. It is rather funny that Grune's name is misspelled on the cover of it.

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honey the codewitch

Yeah thanks, i found it for $80 used

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honey the codewitch

I think that's the first edition. Cheapest i found the 2nd edition for was about $79 and change

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honey the codewitch

oh wow. I'll look into that thank you! Edit: No book there, just a link to the 2nd edition (to buy) and a note that the 1st edition is out of print. Oh well. I ended up finding it for about $80, that's a bit more reasonable than what i was looking at having to pay.

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Amarnath S

I feel you are more than qualified to write that perfect book on Parsing.

Rick York

A PDF version of it can be found here : Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide - Free Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials[^] -edit- it seems the PDF version is inaccessible from that page.

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honey the codewitch

Yeah it's locked down. They want their money!

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Mark_Wallace

honey the codewitch wrote:

Not sure it covers GLR or LL(k)

The Greater London Regional and Lesser Liverpudlian (krap) idioms? I imagine it would.

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carloscs

Fooled me the first time also: the top Title/link is for the pdf :) Seems like I need new four eyes, the link is only to an image. Hmm, the link seems to be PTAPG_1st_Edition[^] Found in freecomputerbooks.com website. It's still to the authors site, but don't know what to make of it...

Rick York

I was mistaken. The link worked and I have several copies of the PDF now.

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Johnny J

That should be easy. Just make a compilation of the Lounge posts... :doh:

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I found the perfect book on parsing

How do you know? Did you read it? If you have read it, then, what's the reason of buying it? :-D

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honey the codewitch

excerpts of most books are available online

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honey the codewitch

Main link doesn't work but the mirror does. thanks. I think i still need the 2nd edition for stuff like GLR but this is great.

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honey the codewitch

yeah i found that link finally thanks to Rick York. Still, I need the 2nd edition but this is great for now. Thanks

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W Balboos GHB

OK - so I've analyzed the situation.

Essentially, you've actually parsed many books to find one that you feel is perfect.
Needing the book naturally implies your parsing itself may not be perfect*
However, since your parsing itself is imperfect you cannot be sure if this is the perfect book.
Buying the book, however, will teach you if you parsed perfectly to find it!
Unless, of course, you parsed imperfectly to ascertain its perfection, in which case it would
only be perfect by mere happenstance.
In which case, then, if it is not perfect you're back on the road, again.

Somehow, "Rinse and Repeat" seems the most appropriate closing at this point. * We leap to the conclusion that you really meant the contents of the book are perfect.

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

honey the codewitch

You made me laugh :laugh:

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dandy72

Hmmm.... Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide - 2nd Ed.pdf Dick Grune Ceriel J.H. Jacobs Springer 674 pages 2,670,949 bytes 2/1/2008 1:00pm Apparently this was..."added to my collection"...over 12 years ago. Ping me directly (I think there's some method on CP to send a private message?) if you're okay with some gray area source. [Edit] Duh. "Email", right next to "Reply". That should do it...