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2/5/2026 • EN

Rewriting pycparser with the help of an LLM

The author describes using an LLM (Codex) to rewrite the pycparser project, replacing its PLY-based parser with a hand-written recursive-descent parser.

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Eli Bendersky

12/28/2018 • EN

Anatomy of a shell

Explores the design and implementation of a POSIX shell, focusing on its parser, AST generation, and task-based execution model.

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Drew DeVault

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