* Erik de Castro Lopo (ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com) wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:25:59 +0100
> Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Are most programming languages designed to be implementable using 
> > lex and yacc?
> 
> Maybe not lex and yacc, but most are designed to be parsed by 
> LALR(1) parsers.
> 
> Currently the most difficult to parse language seems to be C++.

I vote for TeX as the most difficult language to lex and parse.

Alan Schmitt

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