Re: Seeking recommendations for a Visual Parser to replace Visual Parse++

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:00:03 -0500, Chris F Clark
<cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:


> ANTLR is also primarily targeted to Java, but it does generate C++
> (and I believe C#).


ANTLR 3.01 currently supports Java, C, C#, Objective-C, C++, Python
and Ruby.


The Java, C# and C code generators are current with all of ANTLR's
features, the rest are lagging a little bit behind. ANTLR 3.1 is due
out "real soon now" - hopefully it will get all the generators back in
sync.


>In fact, I believe that yacc, LALR, Bison, Yacc++, and ANTLR all
>predate VP++ (and I listed them in order of when I think they first
>existed),


ANTLR was preceded by PCCTS (1989, also by Terence Parr) which was
contemporary with early versions of Bison (1.03?). PCCTS is still
available and its LL(k) parsers are quite powerful, but it targets
only C and lacks many of the niceties of ANTLR.


George
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