> Newer languages are all being designed with the constraint that the grammar should be easy to parse
I think that says less about the difficulty of parsing and more that language designers have realised that 'easy to parse' is not incompatible with good readability and terse syntax. In fact, the two go hand in hand: languages that are easy for computers to understand are often easy for users to understand too.
I think that says less about the difficulty of parsing and more that language designers have realised that 'easy to parse' is not incompatible with good readability and terse syntax. In fact, the two go hand in hand: languages that are easy for computers to understand are often easy for users to understand too.