{"id":1241,"date":"2006-04-26T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/why-bison-is-becoming-extinct\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:26:23","slug":"why-bison-is-becoming-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/why-bison-is-becoming-extinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bison is Becoming Extinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWith computers getting faster, there&rsquo;s less reason to put up with LALR(1) parser generators like Bison and Yacc. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/crossroads\/xrds7-5\/bison.html\">John Aycock<\/a> sees a shift to more powerful Earley and GLR parsers that don&rsquo;t require fiddling with the grammar to reduce conflicts and left-recursion. Earley, which &ldquo;just worked&rdquo; when I used it about five years ago, is cubic in the worst case but has good performance for most &ldquo;normal&rdquo; grammars.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With computers getting faster, there&rsquo;s less reason to put up with LALR(1) parser generators like Bison and Yacc. John Aycock sees a shift to more powerful Earley and GLR parsers that don&rsquo;t require fiddling with the grammar to reduce conflicts and left-recursion. Earley, which &ldquo;just worked&rdquo; when I used it about five years ago, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}