[antlr-interest] Back from Paris/Provence, slightly drunk and tan

[Terence Parr]

On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 01:26  PM, mzukowski at yci.com wrote:

> Yes, I fully agree.  Laziness was a poor choice of words.  Ter's much 
> more
> active now that he's teaching.  The future looks brighter than ever for
> antlr.

Just back from Paris last night...can't sleep. :)  Hello to one and 
all.  Good trip with visions of finishing the new ANTLR web site (fully 
interactive thingie), full LL(k), sem pred hoisting, and a cool idea 
for tracking down ambiguous lookahead sequences.  I must admit though 
that the visions were a bit blurry from French wine. <snicker>.

Hmm....I think that the new antlr web site could provide a service 
that, given a grammar, could answer questions about it like "how the 
hell can my grammar be ambiguous at this point for input ID SEMICOLON?" 
  That service would incorporate the new lookahead analysis and such 
which I'd fold back into ANTLR.  I must converse with el jeffe Loring 
Craymer to discuss internal data structures for antlr; he's just made a 
foray into that DeepAndScaryJungleOfNoReturn_HereBeDragons.java stuff ;)

Anyway, gotta keep rolling with my ANTLR lectures at USF and finish up 
another website I'm building for jGuru (should be out really soon 
now...you'll dig it).  I hope to start tackling more real problems soon.

The lectures at USF should start to get more interesting now [for you 
more advanced folks].  I see that there have been about 1500 .mp3 
lecture audio downloads so far this semester.  Not too bad I guess.

In case anybody is wondering, there were 4733 downloads of ANTLR, 
"download/antlr-.*.zip" or "download/antlr-.*.gz", in January 2003.  
Not a bad haul.  That has been consistent since I started paying 
attention last summer.  Extrapolating, one can imagine 50,000 downloads 
a year or so.  Who knows how many unique users that is.  Won't be able 
to track that until new site comes up (don't worry--no registration 
will be required!).  I think extrapolating further a little let's us 
all imagine that ANTLR dominates the java parser generator space.

At least...that's what my mother tells all her friends <wink>.

Ter
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Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator: http://www.antlr.org
Lecturer in Comp. Sci., University of San Francisco


 

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