Re: parsing tools, was Dragon Book - update necessary?

I do not use antlr, so I will leave it others to answer your questions.
I do have some editorial comments.


- Scanner generators are more trouble than they are worth.
- Interpreted languages like Java do not scale unless they can be
compiled.
- The main advantage of hand-coded compilers is flexibility. Your
application seems to need flexibility above all else.


Best of luck with it.
[I find that scanner generators are fine so long as you have a language
that matches the model that most generators use, i.e., no fixed columns
and not much context-sensitive token syntax. -John]

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