Subj : Re: Parser generators for a simple language form. How?
To   : comp.programming
From : ed_davis2
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 04:10 pm

Jon Ripley wrote:
>
> 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.

Try Coco/R, a very easy to use parser generator, that generates
recursive descent parsers.  It is available in several different
languages (C, C++, Java, C#, Pascal, Oberon).

There is a book about it based on the C and C++ versions at:

http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/

I personally think it is much easier to use than YACC and Bison.  The
book gives numerous examples, and the Taste example that comes with
the source code of Coco/R should get you up and running fairly
quickly.

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