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		stonemetal on Feb 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Few Billion Lines of Code: Using Static Analysis... From what I understand parsing is a solved problem. Parsing exactly like 40+ different C compilers for which you don't have source is a different beast all together.

tetha on Feb 11, 2010 [–]

I'd rather call it: Parsing a given language is solved. Unterstanding the not-C (love that term) language those 40+ C-Compilers accept is hard.

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