There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept natural-language-like ...

Let's say I want to implement a parser that just spits out a serialized AST (JSON, XML, whatever's easy). The languages I'd be parsing would be lightweight markup languages like Markdown, RST, etc.

Despite developers grumbling that they would ditch Parse’s mobile app backend service now that it’s been bought by Facebook, Parse CEO Ilya Suhkar tells me signups spiked 9.4x and fewer clients are ...