Parsing technology traditionally consists of two branches, which correspond to the two main application areas of context-free grammars and their generalizations. Efficient deterministic parsing algorithms have been
developed for parsing programming languages, and quite different algorithms are employed for analyzing natural language.<br/> <em>The Functional Treatment of Parsing</em> provides a functional framework
within which the different traditional techniques are restated and unified. The resulting theory provides new recursive implementations of parsers for context-free grammars. The new implementations, called recursive ascent
parsers, avoid explicit manipulation of parse stacks and parse matrices, and are in many ways superior to conventional implementations. They are applicable to grammars for programming languages as well as natural
languages.<br/> The book has been written primarily for students and practitioners of parsing technology. With its emphasis on modern functional methods, however, the book will also be of benefit to scientists
interested in functional programming. <em>The Functional Treatment of Parsing</em> is an excellent reference and can be used as a text for a course on the subject.<br/>