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Do you know any practical books that show how to implement a parser starting from a CF grammar (preferably in C)?

All compiler books lack the practical part. I would like to see how to build a LL parser algorithmically in a language like C that doesn't abstract things away (I could use OCaml but I feel I wouldn't learn as much since it's so high level).

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