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Prepare presentation on parser generators like Bison

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    • Query 2020-03-23, Query 2020-04-06, Query 2020-04-20

      Prepare a presentation for the team about tools which ingest a grammar and output parsers for it. The most interesting questions are:

      1. What do these tools look like? What features do they have? What's the input/output?
      2. Your experience with these tools. What was George's skunkworks project like?
      3. How we may or may not be able to get them to ingest BSON.

      One possible outline is:

      • Parser generators: Typical goals, input/outputs, some example names, maybe some glimpse at code
      • Contrast to IDL: What's similar, what's different
      • Your previous experience at other companies/projects (if you know where we may find others in the company using them, that would be interesting)
      • George's skunkwork project and results
      • Lexing BSON (I think this was left as follow-up for George's project?)
      • Compare/contrast which tools are best candidates should we use one (e.g. how does ANTLR compare to Bison)

            Assignee:
            jacob.evans@mongodb.com Jacob Evans
            Reporter:
            charlie.swanson@mongodb.com Charlie Swanson
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