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C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13

In Chapter 8, Functional Parsers, it's all about parsing and parsers. A parser is a program that analyses a piece of text to determine its syntactic structure. In a functional language such as Haskell, parsers can naturally
be viewed as functions.

type Parser = String -> Tree

A parser is a function that takes a string and returns some form of tree.

You should watch these in sequence (or skip around depending on your curent level of knowledge in this domain):

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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13

Haskell