On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:38 AM, leledumbo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However, I have a question: is there any article about 'how to write > lexical parsers' using Object Pascal? > > First, you need to differentiate them correctly. Lexical scanner (or simply > lexer) and parser, not lexical parser :) > > I've written some simple languages, generating GraphViz, LLVM or C code, > using both self learning reference from the almighty Prof. Niklaus Wirth's > articles, Jack Crenshaw's, the legendary dragon book and many others plus > my > compiler course in college. > > I really really suggest Prof. Niklaus Wirth's one > (http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/, click the Compiler Construction > link) as it's concise, simple, doesn't use stupid generator (i.e.: easy to > implement by hand) while covering most important parts of the subject. > While > he didn't use or stress or even discourage the usage of abstract syntax > tree, he did explain it that's good enough to understand. > > Here's what I've written in the past and is publicly available: > - https://bitbucket.org/leledumbo/erd-maker (generates GraphViz code for > ERD > visualization) > - https://bitbucket.org/leledumbo/linguc (generates LLVM code that can be > compiled as a library for a mathematically provable language focusing in > database driven application) > > I don't use the direct code generation approach anymore as I found the > abstract syntax tree to be usable for more than just code generation. > Buddy, thanks alot for that information. I'll take a look at this! =) -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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