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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Parser/lexer generator ANTLR
Date: 1999/02/18
Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902180931250.11881-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7afur9$8ka$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <36CB37AB.2313@cs.purdue.edu>,
>   J Chapman Flack <flack@cs.purdue.edu> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm not a c.l.ada regular, but Markus Kuhn suggested I
> > post something about ANTLR.
> 
> > ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a pretty
> > mature (in use for much of this decade) free, open-source
> > parser and lexer generator
> 
> > ANTLR itself is implemented in Java
> 
> 
> What is wrong with this picture? :-)

Well, if one wishes to give the most generous interpretation of the
statement, one could say that ANTLR is based on techniques pioneered 
by PCCTS (written in C and then C++, by the author of ANTLR), and that 
this family of tools was in use for most of the decade. 

-- Brian (10 years experience in Ada 95 programming ;-)





  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-02-18  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-17  0:00 Parser/lexer generator ANTLR J Chapman Flack
1999-02-18  0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00   ` dennison
1999-02-18  0:00     ` nabbasi
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-18  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-02-18  0:00     ` William Clodius
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