ANTLR v3 is the most powerful, easy-to-use parser generator built to date, and represents the culmination of more than 15 years of research by Terence Parr. This book is the essential reference guide to using this completely rebuilt version of ANTLR, with its amazing new LL() parsing technology, tree construction facilities, StringTemplate code generation template engine, and sophisticated ANTLRWorks GUI development environment. Learn to use ANTLR directly from the author! ANTLR is a parser generator-a program that generates code to translate a specified input language into a nice, tidy data structure. You might think that parser generators are only used to build compilers. But in fact, programmers usually use parser generators to build translators and interpreters for domain-specific languages such as proprietary data formats, common network protocols, text processing languages, and domain-specific programming languages. Domain-specific languages are important to software development because they represent a more natural, high fidelity, robust, and maintainable means of encoding a problem than simply writing software in a general-purpose language. For example, NASA uses domain-specific command languages for space missions to improve reliability, reduce risk, reduce cost, and increase the speed of development. Even the first Apollo guidance control computer from the 1960s used a domain-specific language that supported vector computations. This book is the definitive guide to using the completely rebuilt ANTLR v3 and describes all features in detail, including the amazing new LL(
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Terence Parr is a professor of computer science and graduate program director at the University of San Francisco, where he continues to work on his ANTLR parser generator, http://www.antlr.org. Terence has consulted for and held various technical positions at companies such as IBM, Lockheed Missiles and Space, NeXT, and Renault Automation. Terence holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Purdue University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota, where he built parallelizing FORTRAN source-to-source translators.
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By Ash
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If you are into compilers or in fact any kind of parser, interpreter or building DSLs this book needs to go on your bookshelf (right next to the Dragon book!).
Please be aware that it takes serious learning, study, practice, patience and time to learn how to build parsers, compilers and their ilk. This book will definitely help you along that path.
I'd even recommend this book to beginners but only if they are sufficiently interested in the topic and have the time to invest, because if you are a beginner you should be prepared for a serious learning curve trying to get to grips with parser/compiler theory.
Please be aware that it takes serious learning, study, practice, patience and time to learn how to build parsers, compilers and their ilk. This book will definitely help you along that path.
I'd even recommend this book to beginners but only if they are sufficiently interested in the topic and have the time to invest, because if you are a beginner you should be prepared for a serious learning curve trying to get to grips with parser/compiler theory.
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By Mr. S. Crook
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If you've got your computer science degree tucked under your belt you've probably come across Antlr and much of the content of this book will be familiar and approachable. If not, then there's a learning curve ahead of you.
Antlr is probably the best parser generator available and is free. The online documentation is Ok but bitty. Finding the bits you need and then working it all out can be hard work.
This book gathers everything into one place in a consistent and structured fashion. Parrs prose is easy to read and the book avoids starting simple and then suddenly dropping the reader straight in at the deep end after the first couple of chapters.
The main example in the book is a simple calculator that supports variable assignment (something of a staple with all parser generators) and it's enough to be getting on with, but it would have been nice to have it gradually expanded on through the book to a small language with error recovery and meaningful error messages.
Overall though, it's a book full of useful information, not just on Antlr but language design and parsing in general. It's well written and presented and should get you going with Antlr *3.0* and provide reading material for some time to come.
Antlr is probably the best parser generator available and is free. The online documentation is Ok but bitty. Finding the bits you need and then working it all out can be hard work.
This book gathers everything into one place in a consistent and structured fashion. Parrs prose is easy to read and the book avoids starting simple and then suddenly dropping the reader straight in at the deep end after the first couple of chapters.
The main example in the book is a simple calculator that supports variable assignment (something of a staple with all parser generators) and it's enough to be getting on with, but it would have been nice to have it gradually expanded on through the book to a small language with error recovery and meaningful error messages.
Overall though, it's a book full of useful information, not just on Antlr but language design and parsing in general. It's well written and presented and should get you going with Antlr *3.0* and provide reading material for some time to come.
By Mark
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Ultimately I was unable to extract enough information from this book to accomplish the task before me. It is not organised as reference work and is not comprehensive as a tutorial. For me this felt like a collection of hints, which might have been adequate if I had had a flesh-and-blood expert on hand to fill in the gaps or explain the significance of the hints.
If you acquire this book because it has the words "definitive" and "reference" in its title you are likely to be disappointed.
If you acquire this book because it has the words "definitive" and "reference" in its title you are likely to be disappointed.
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