SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Mcshiggs]

So you knew the other guy was saying, "the act of parsing" yet you kept going on about "third party programs". So you're both at fault for not stopping.

Arguing for the sake of argument? Sounds like it, eh?

There were more than me and one other person in the exchanges, one was saying the act of parsing, another was saying that the tools were ok, because they believe that parsers themselves are ok, and the fact that they are a parser outweighs the fact that they are third party programs. Also this whole thread is about parsing via third party programs, not the act of parsing all together.