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inoop on Aug 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Pape...

ANTLR is great, but I also highly recommend xtext: http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/. It generates a full lexer/parser, AST representation, does automatic cross-referencing, and even generates an Eclipse plugin for your language with syntax highlighting and code completion.

tonyedgecombe on Aug 26, 2011 [–]

Although some of the examples in that book use ANTLR, they all cover the theory behind the use, it is much more than an ANTLR manual.

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