Subj : Re: Parser generators for a simple language form. How? To : comp.programming From : Alex Fraser Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 09:14 pm "Jon Ripley" wrote in message news:k0PHe.69399$dN6.35845@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk... > This has been bugging me for a while and I'd appreciate some input. > > I have a number of simple scripting languages of similiar specifications > that I use for rapid application development that I would like to make > available to a wider audience. The wider audience use whichever > operating system they want to on whatever platform they purchased. > > Currently they are all implemented in a non-portable language and whilst > they suit my current needs perfectly they are of limited use to others > and need to be recoded in a portable language to be compiled for > whatever OS/platform any given user may want to use them on. My first > choice for the portable language is C and these will all be command line > tools. [snip] > Any suggestions for tools that I can use which would be appropriate for > generating parsers for languages of this type? They should not be too > difficult to learn as I want to spend the time porting the code rather > than spending months working out how to use the parser generator. I have > looked into yacc and bison but these don't seem to be appropriate and > appear to have a huge learning curve. Which language are the parsers currently implemented in? Are they "hand coded" or did you use a parser generator? What makes you say that yacc and bison "don't seem to be appropriate"? Alex .