Parser Combinator in Haskell vs. Regex in Python
This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive comparison between the two styles of parsing, because parser combinator is certainly more powerful than plain regular expression, athough I have seen regular expressions that pretend to do just as much. Speaking of which, there is a recent story on Hacker News about an adventure in regex land which I highly recommend. The bad news is parser combinator isn’t part of the standard library in Python....