F# Hands-On: FParsec with Phil Trelford

The awesome Phil Trelford (https://twitter.com/ptrelford) is visiting us all the way from London, and he will be running a hands-on session on parsers!

FParsec (http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/) is a parser combinator library for F# that lets you quickly build a recursive-descent text parser.

This session will introduce parsing domain-specific and general purpose languages using FParsec. Along the way we'll also cover creating a simple Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) with discriminated unions, and interpreting or compiling the language using pattern matching.

To get the most from the session, please bring along a laptop with F# installed (http://fsharp.org/).

Thanks to our host ThoughtWorks (http://www.thoughtworks.com/locations/san-francisco), we'll have food & drinks available.

Phil Trelford (https://twitter.com/ptrelford) is an active member of the software development community, regularly attending and speaking at user groups and conferences, blogging and contributing to open source projects. He is a co-organizer of the London F# User Group and a founding member of the F# Foundation.

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