Idiots don't know how to parse...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28256/equation-expression-parser-with-precedence

WTF? The accepted answer is from someone who thinks recursive descent is "hard" and a ridiculously bloated parser-generator is "easy"? Pure bisonshit! Almost every real (and toy) compiler uses some variant of recursive-descent. Even GCC, which would probably be the biggest user of Bison, moved to recursive-descent years ago.

These aren't even programmers, these are Java-sipping codemonkeys who know next to nothing about how anything really works and can only parrow "reinventing the wheel" and other "enterprise best practices" bullshit.

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Counterpoint: parsers have to be custom to be able to encode human-useful information on error.
Generated parse error on function(arg1 arg2): ``error at line 1 column 23, `arg2': expected `,' or `)'''
Custom parse error: ``I couldn't understand line 1: Function call arguments need to be separated by commas; try `function(arg1, arg2)' instead (specifically fell over at column 23)''