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BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 28 February 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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Nearly without fail, each time my compiler theory class meets, our professor comes up with some linguistic boner that a language (not based on Lambda Calculus) commits that further validates the righteousness of ML. Here's the compiler-theory insult of the day.
The only time I could conceive of this type of approach for resolving shift-reduce conflicts is in C++, which I would consider more of an ad-hoc language--not a real language.
Zing!