Quote Originally Posted by Malevicton View Post
That's... not really how music works. It's very mathematical actually. You can get pretty far by ear, but after a while you really need to learn some basic music theory if you want to keep getting better. You picked a very poor analogy. Or maybe you accidentally picked a really appropriate analogy since most of what was wrong with it translates to why you're wrong about parses. Who knows?

Brain and eyes can get you pretty far. But if you want to really optimize, then that's where parsers come in.
Maybe you should listen to some Beethoven who came up with some of the most mathematically complex music to this date, and he was deaf. Nice try though?