lexers vs parsers
- by Naveen
Are lexers and parsers really that different in theory ?
It seems fashionable to hate regular expressions: coding horror, another blog post.
However, popular lexing based tools: pygments, geshi, or prettify, all use regular expressions. They seem to lex anything...
When is lexing enough, when do you need EBNF ?
Has anyone used the tokens produced by these lexers with bison or antlr parser generators?