Grammar Translator (for translators) ?

Hello Everybody,


I'm working on a PL/I for Palm project (see signature below!) My goal is to
convert the PL/I code to C++/PRC-Tools (then compile to a final PalmOS
application).


Mr Gary Gorsline sent me the following message:


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Have you checked out other possible roads (non-XML). It seems to me
that back in my younger days, we had defined a grammar translator
(based on Chomski's grammars), that did easily allow a high level
language to be defined in a grammar definition (like you see for SQL
grammars, as an example). This system also allowed for the target
grammar to be defined. The target was usually as something like a
Pascal pseudo code definition.


I can't remember the name of the system - it did go commercial on
mainframes, but I hate to see you run down a road without checking out
some of the other possibilities. I'm not saying that the XML route is
bad, just be smart about this, it is a "hobby" and you really aren't
spending any money, so why not be sure you are doing this the best or
right way.


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Does any such special grammar translator exist ? (for Java ?) That would
make it easy for me to write a compiler (translator).


Any help very much appreciated.


Regards,


Lennie De Villiers


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