hand-build

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This is the reason it is way easier to hand-build a parser for C than try to use any kind of parser generator.

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make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"

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verb

make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"

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verb

make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"

Example sentences

This is the reason it is way easier to hand-build a parser for C than try to use any kind of parser generator.

Person B might hand-build a recursive descent parser and spit out a simple stack-based IR which she runs in an hand-crafted interpreter.

While I agree that for a fixed language, a well-written hand-built recursive descent parser will beat the pants off the output of a parser generator, languages aren't necessarily fixed and writing a good hand-build parser is harder than it seems.

The overhead of a React/TS stack is considerably less than the overhead of having to hand-build all the stuff that Hyperapp's 12 kilobytes aren't enough to provide, or that using ClojureScript means very few other engineers will want to work with me to build because I'm doing everything in a language and stack they've never heard of.> What's missing from hyperapp, which is only present in the 100MB+ deps?Eleven years!