The SPL compiler on Prime used to do something similar

Some self isolating people probably get through a lot of toilet paper / tissues.

It's good you are trying to Spread your Wings

pop or beer?

That's why parsers have some sort of synchronise system, when an error occurs they just eat tokens until they can get back to a safe state - simple ones just chew away until they hit a keyword.

i will have nightmares now

"I neither have a degree in an HR-related field nor have worked in HR before" You're over-qualified then

I don't think I have ever seen lexer/parser code which wouldn't struggle to pass most code reviews.

Why do you think a stackless DFA is faster?

The Sun doesn't have a surface

There's plenty of earlier events which will stop biological processes.

Have you considered using Vaughan Pratt’s top-down operator precedence parsing?

merge sort maybe?

They can be utterly incomprehensible but you get used to them. I revisited C then C++ recently after several years away with C# and found the messages from the compiler to be almost universally unhelpful but after a week or so I settled into it again.

You ran over his toe at LAX Airport also?

The vast majority of the time when looking at code I don't need to know what everything is - so without var I am presented with a load of noise and redundancy. If I want to know what something is and it isn't immediately obvious then I can hover over it and it tells me and for the purpose of that session I don't need to do that again. I prefer to concentrate on the code rather than a load of type declaration noise. Admittedly it is a fine line - I don't use var everywhere - int i = 10 never becomes var i = 10, for example. And using var has become something I have adjusted to over time - at first I didn't like it, then I used it to remove redundancy var l = new List() rather than List l = new List(). Now I use it in most places other than the aforementioned value type decls.

That's what intellisense is for.

I like var, it removes a lot of unnecessary noise

I am not sure it classifies as advanced but I have used unsafe code with casts and pointer arithmetic in C# a lot and am now switching to Span, ref structs and SIMD instructions

And EBCDIC - everybody always forgets EBCDIC :sigh: