Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

[Eddie Corns]

Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> writes:

>On Jul 23, 5:53 am, ed... at holyrood.ed.ac.uk (Eddie Corns) wrote:
>> Wolfgang Strobl <ne... at mystrobl.de> writes:
>> >few of James Gimple's snippets from "Algorithms in SNOBOL4"
>> >(->http://www.snobol4.org/) as an exercise using that library might help
>> >to get a better appreciation. Perhaps I'll try, eventually ...
>>
>> I never noticed them or the PDF of the book there before.  Some Friday
>> afternoon reading for sure.
>>
>> Personally I hope to get more to time to look at a combination of Lua and
>> PEGs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar) for my parsing
>> needs.
>>
>> Eddie

>If you get a chance to look at pyparsing, I'd be interested in your
>comments.  The PEG page and the SNOBOL implementation have many
>similar concepts with pyparsing (or is it the other way around?).

It's on my list of things to get round to.

I think what I'm really after though is a parsing DSL.  I only did only one
fairly small project in SNOBOL but I was impressed at the ease with which I
could express the problem (some googling suggested that many end users found
the same).  I guess I want SNOBOL embedded in a modern language with scoping
etc.  Python is antithetical to (this class of) DSLs (IMHO) :(

Probably what I really need is parser combinators in Haskell or maybe camlp4
or some such exotica but unfortunately I've never heard of them.

Eddie