What Is a Parser?: Part 1

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English - May 06, 2019 06:00 - 16 minutes - 55.8 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Parsing is a difficult, but surprisingly ubiquitous programming problem, and functional programming has a lot to say about it. Let's take a moment to understand the problem space of parsing, and see what tools Swift and Apple gives us to parse complex text formats.