[antlr-interest] Re: PERL VS ANTLR

[micheal_jor <open.zone at virgin.net>]

> The main difference I think is that Perl is imerative language, but 
ANTLR
> is declaretive (disregarding C semantic attributes).
> So despite the fact that they have overlapping sets of solving 
tasks they
> implement different ways for that.
> 
> By the way is it possible to write ANTLR in ANTLR-grammars? hmm....

ANTLR is written with ANTLR. It's a self-booting system. 
Uufortunately it doesn't serve as a showcase of how to use ANTLR 
features such as AST-constrution (homo/hetero) or TreeParsers.

Micheal


 

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