Re: Advice on Writing a Parser Generator

Thant Tessman <thant@acm.org>
10 Aug 2003 22:48:57 -0400

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From: Thant Tessman <thant@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Aug 2003 22:48:57 -0400
Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/
References: 03-08-027
Keywords: parse, books
Posted-Date: 10 Aug 2003 22:48:56 EDT

Stefanie Scherzinger wrote:




> I plan to write a parser generator, very similar to YACC, for Java.
>
> I was hoping to find some literature and advice on how to best
> approach this.




People will usually recommend the Dragon book, but that was always a
tough read for me. However, I was able to follow "Modern Compiler
Implementation in ML" well enough to build an SLR parser generator (in
C++ oddly enough). I haven't read it, but there's a version for Java:


http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/


-thant


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