Building a Parser from scratch. Lecture [1/18]: Tokenizer | Parser

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Lucas - thank you for the kind feedback, glad you like the courses.

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it! And yes, the next lectures in the series are coming soon.

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[@jordixboy]

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks, glad you like it. Yes, VM course is coming soon.

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks for the kind feedback and glad the lectures are useful.

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks for the feedback, glad you find it useful!

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks Irwin, glad it's useful!

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Hi Handle, thanks, glad to hear!

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Although the course is structural equivalent to the first 3 chapters of "Compilers - Principles, Techniques, and Tools" from Aho et al., it is a very good course and adds very useful practical components to the book. So I recommend it in addition to all students of the book. ... but I'am missing the reference to the book in the description (on all platforms).

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[@andrewpattersonandy5149]

I developed a compiler development system in the late 1960s. In the parsing language you use formula. PROGRAM = $ DECLARATION; The above PROGRAM formula repeatedly calls DECLARATION

[@sohansingh2022]

Thank you ❤

[@tmanley1985]

This is excellent material. I wonder if you'd consider making a video geared towards DSL design?

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, a class on building a DSL may be a good one. You may consider "Building a Transpiler" or "Building an Interpreter" as well to cover those parts.

[@tmanley1985]

@@DmitrySoshnikov-educationThank you! I suppose the part I'd be most interested in seeing would be mapping domain concepts to ORM calls or actions that need to take place. I feel like I have a fuzzy intuition of what needs to happen in that layer but I've not built anything yet. Thanks for all your work, it's invaluable!

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[@nagarajuss8887]

What are the other future course/ materials you are working on ?. 1.Probably VM 2. Building tools around the language etc

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Yes, the low-level VM course will be the next. Tools around the language - probably, like Type checker, Disassembler, Code formatter, etc.

[@nagarajuss8887]

@@DmitrySoshnikov-education Than can we expect " Building Tools around the language " is next ie. After the VM course.

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[@behruzisaev2102]

Hey Dmitry, thanks for the great lecture! Could you please provide a new discount coupon for Udemy?

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Hi Behruz, thanks for the interest and the feedback! Yes, the new promo coupons are coming soon, and are usually available at: dmitrysoshnikov.com

[@incrediblejava]

If I out a compiler project in my resume will it help me in applying for job as fresher.

[@ShlomoGottlieb]

Thanks! great lecutres! Where can I find the next one in this series? 4/18?

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked the lectures. You can get more info and enroll to the course here: dmitrysoshnikov.com/courses/parser-from-scratch/

[@melkishitesfaye3038]

Thanks so much. It is a great video. Can you please make a video for python?

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How are you animating this?

[@nd8774]

beautiful

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I just have to say. Thank you for this video...

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Very nice video

[@hasithananayakkara7956]

Requirements for newbies on programming ?

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Prerequisites for this class are: 1 - basic data structures and algorithms (trees, recursion, regular expressions), 2 - interest in building programming languages and parsers.

[@curiousminds301]

@Dimitry Soshnikov how can I make a parser for yaml where I have made a crd of kubernetes

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Similar as other parsers - have a grammar for generic yaml (or specific yaml format used for CRD). Then use either an automated parser generator tool (such as Syntax) or manual recursive-descent parser as this tutorial.

[@ihsannuruliman4005]

Can you guide me, if I want to learn how to build a programming framework, does learning parser help? In Laravel for example even though they are built with PHP, but there are things like templating engine (Blade), Laravel Artisan, ORM, config files, dll. I don't really know it's done in compiler/interpreter level or high-level language level.

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Yes, building a library/framework is a different and a high-level task. In these courses we study how to build e.g. your own "PHP" language (compilers, virtual machines, etc). Once you have a programming language (infrastructure-level), you can build any product-level frameworks, like ORMs, config files, etc. I can see such a course might be useful.

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Hi, can you please share the discount coupons for Udemy? They only work for one of your courses (Parsing Algorithms). The rest are at full price. Thanks.

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[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks for the heads up, I have new coupons available for 5 days.

[@stephanedubedat285]

The statement about autogenerated parser being inferior and hence not used by real programming languages (no precise errors) is wrong, modern programming languages like Kotlin or any GraalVM language use ANTLR which is an automated parser. Thanks for the great video!

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Thanks, good point! And yes, auto-generated parsers are definitely used by production PLs, hence we study them in the separate class called "Parsing Algorithms". You can find details here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIuYdX2lpdZogKM

[@steamerandy]

Using what I now call parser programming languages, PPLs, you program a parser. They are impariative programming languages (in declaritive clothing)`. The program formula below a test function. It does not produce or imply a tree. It simple repeatedly calls the declraration formula until .EOF (End of File) is successful and .STOP finishes up the compile, closing files etc. Half of it though is handling errors, reporting via the ERRORX function and recovery looking for a ';' (termonating character of most language constructs}. It is excessivly commented for explanation. program = // A program is $(( declaration // a sequance declaration // terminated by .EOF (End Of File) alternative: | .EOF .STOP) // On success of .EOF: .STOP completes // and terminates. the compile. \ ERRORX["?? Error"] // On: declaration long-failing the \ backtrack // alternative: backtracks with ERRORX // reporting it and flaging the furthest // parse point. $(-";" (.ANY| .STOP)) // Error recovery is programed using a // negative peak ahead string test. A // negative tests never advances the parse // successful or otherwise. // .ANY advances over any character. Only // failing at end of input: // taking the .STOP alternative terminating // the compile. On matching a semicolen // the -';' fails terminating the loop. Then // the semicolen: ";"); // is matched and the main loop continues. Basicly a program is $equance declartion. The rest of the program formula (if not at the .EOF end of file) is error reporting and recovery. The declartion parsing formula parses and/or decides the verious types of formula and skips comment text. Commennts are parsed but do not produce trees. declartion = "#" dirictive // compiler directive | comment | global DECLAR[*1] | (id // identifier symbol ( formula PARSER[*1] // Parsing formula | sequencer GENERATOR[*1] // Generator function | optimizer ISO[*1] // In Sequance Optimizer | pseudo_op PRODUCTION[*1] // Pseudo | emitor_op MACHOP[*1] // Machine ) // All above start with an identifier \ // Backtrack no ID or long failure ERRORX["Syntax error"] // report ERROR garbol /* skip over error.*/); formula = (":" class :CLASS // character class define |".." token :TOKEN // token formula |"==" syntax :BCKTRAK // backtrack grammar formula |"=" syntax :SYNTAX // grammar formula. )";"!2 // Combine node name and tree $(-.NL -"/*" .ANY); Comment? Skip to line seperator. // c++ style commenting added with // Backwords compatibility: treats text following a // formula’s terminating semicolon as comment. comment = // C style comments: "//" $(-.NL .ANY) | "/*" $(-"*/" .ANY) "*/"; These are majorly different comparred to Chomski grammars. They are top-down LALR analytical parser languages. Top-down/recursion provides the ability to define language structures. grouping provides the ability to avoid backtracking by factoring common test and grouping alternatives. The verious devisions and syntaxs of COBOL. The various forms of it's own parsing formula: SYNTAX '=', TOKEN '..', CHARACTER CLASS ':', generator '{' and machine instruvtionn .MACHOP function, syntax = seq ("|" alt1|"\" alt2 |--); alt1 = seq:ALT!2 ('|' alt1|--); alternative sequance. alt2 = seq:BKTK!2 ("\" alt2|--); backtrack alternative sequance seq = +[oper $oper]+; +[…]+ makes a list. oper = test | action | "(" syntax ")"; test = string | id ("[" (arg_list|-- ,NILL) "]":GENR!2|--) dgt: '0'|'1'|'2'|'3'|'4'|'5'|'6'|'7'|'8'|'9'; lwr: 'a'|'b'|'c'|'d'|'e'|'f'|'g'|'h'|'i'| 'j'|'k'|'l'|'m'|'n'|'o'|'p'|'q'|'r'| 's'|'t'|'u'|'v'|'w'|'x'|'y'|'z'; upr: 'A'|'B'|'C'|'D'|'E'|'F'|'G'|'H'|'I'| 'J'|'K'|'L'|'M'|'N'|'O'|'P'|'Q'|'R'| 'S'|'T'|'U'|'V'|'W'|'X'|'Y'|'Z'; alpha: lwr|upr; let: alpha|dgt; id .. let $(+'_' alphanum | alphanum); integer .. dgt $dgt MAKENUM[]; Token .. formula skip leading white space (skip_class cxharacters) not matched explicitly by the formula. Any character can be matched by its glyph or numeric code #. Unlike Chomsky grammars: parsing formula do not implay a tree. They explictly direct the tree construction using operators. Token ".." formula on success create a token object and push it onto the parse stack. Unless a conversion function is used a token formula creats a symbol object and catalogs the symbol intto the dictionary, symbol table stack Symbol tables can be pushed and poped handling nested functions. Parser programmimg languages are the most powerful parser development tool for programming parsers. Except they are not stand alone tools. They create typed objects. The treecrawling lisp 2 based generator language's runtime provides the dynamic typed objects system.

[@_slier]

why is it only 5 video? i thought there should be 12 videos?

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

Yes, there are coming soon.

[@jensBendig]

I wrote a horrible Parser when I was young. Then a less horrible one. And so on.

[@DmitrySoshnikov-education]

And good to see you now on the proper parser building class :)