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Why bison is becoming extinct
At some point in your career, you're going to implement a computer language. You probably won't be implementing Java or C++. You may not even recognize it as a language. Truth be told, there are an awful lot of domain-specific languages, or "little languages" [7] in common use: configuration files, HTML/XML documents, shell scripts, network protocols, mail headers, command-line arguments. The list goes on. A number of programs allow you to write scripts to control their operation; infact, just the other day I downloaded a neural network simulator which provided a little programming language to steer the simulation.How will you implement your language?
Why bison is becoming extinct
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