From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5e5720326407cb2d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Parser/lexer generator ANTLR Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445756637 References: <36CB37AB.2313@cs.purdue.edu> <7afur9$8ka$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 919359267 219 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > In article <36CB37AB.2313@cs.purdue.edu>, > J Chapman Flack 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 ;-)