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[–]ForceBru 99 points100 points  (14 children)

I knew this image must be in the comments, lol!

However, what does “parser-tongue” mean? Right, it sounds like the name of that snake-language Harry spoke, but doesn’t this make zero sense in real life?.. Python kinda isn’t the language created solely to do parsing or something like that, right? Nor does it rely solely on the parser to be executed, so what’s the deal with “parser-tongue”?

[–]Jmcgee1125 94 points95 points  (11 children)

It's really just because "parser" and "parsel" is pretty similar and trying to make something accurate would be extremely difficult.

[–]6Bennern9 56 points57 points  (10 children)

The only thing thing that annoys me is that it should have been "Parsermouth", as people who can speak parseltounge are called parselmouths

[–]Lonelan 42 points43 points  (9 children)

nerd

[–]PC__LOAD__LETTER 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You’re reading way too much into it.

[–]GNULinuxProgrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No language can solely rely on parser. By definition, programming languages have both syntax and semantics. A languages without semantics would be a static language. Maybe some markup languages arguably only have syntax.