ANTLR

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ANTLR
Design by Terence Parr and others
Initial release February 1992
Latest release 3.1.1 / 2008-10-01; 189 days ago
Written in Java
Platform Cross-platform
Development status in active development
License BSD License
Website antlr home

In computer based language recognition, ANother Tool for Language Recognition (ANTLR) is the name of a parser generator that uses LL(*) parsing. ANTLR is the successor to the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS), first developed in 1989, and is under active development. Its maintainer is professor Terence Parr of the University of San Francisco.

At the moment, ANTLR supports generating code in the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Objective-C. ANTLR 3 is free software, published under a 3-clause BSD License.

For an introduction, see the ANTLR tutorial at the University of Birmingham. For background on the theory, see articles from the ANTLR pages, e.g. an ANTLR journal paper.

Several plugins have been developed for the Eclipse development environment to support the ANTLR grammar. There is ANTLR Studio, a proprietary product, as well as the ANTLR 2 and 3 plugins for Eclipse hosted on SourceForge.


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