Tour of Parser-Printers: Introduction

Cool, that's an interesting way to apply parser combinators. Where can I download the library? Also, the Sample Code link at the end is 404.

Making Mondays something to look forward to! I already can use this library for a new project.

This post links to a video where at least one presenter (the one on the right) reads directly from a prepared text while trying to vary his delivery in a way that's supposed to make it sound like it's natural conversation or, say, a lecture which is prepared but where no verbatim script exists. A word of advice (at least if you're trying to maximize your reach*): don't do this.

I listen to at least one podcast where the host does this, too, and it's tolerable for an occasional listen but extremely grating. I can only imagine that this happens because no one has ever told them "don't do this; it is extremely grating", so they think it really is achieving some sort of polished, Ira Glass/NPR effect. It doesn't, and I imagine further that for lots of people it's actually intolerable instead of being merely ineffective, which means those listeners opt out instead. (Even in the case of the podcast I mentioned, I'm less motivated to seek out that show, so I end up listening to far fewer episodes than otherwise.)

To better understand why I'm commenting about this at all, read <https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/11/02/they-might-never-tel...>.

* this looks like a free episode in a for-pay series, so it seems reasonable to assume that this applies here

PS: The project that is the focus of this presentation (swift-parser) is not linked anywhere. The yowconference.com link for "Unified Parsing and Printing with Prisms" is broken. The link for the code sample on GitHub is also broken.