[antlr-interest] Do we need an antlr tutorial

Sohail Somani sohail at taggedtype.net
Sat Nov 5 15:28:30 PST 2005


On Sun, 2005-06-11 at 04:39 +0530, Suman Karumuri wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been working on antlr for the past one month and i have
> implemented a version of hoc(as described in "The unix programming
> environment" by kernighan and pike) using antlr and python.
> 
> This is a complete language with loops,conditionals and functions.
> >From the tree parser i generate a byte code which is interpretted by
> the interpretter. One advantage of this system over hoc is that it is
> easy to learn when compared to hoc. However, there are some minor
> deviations from the hoc described in the book.
> 
> So, is working on the program to convert into a tutorial worth the
> effort?If there is some interest i can put in my spare time in writing
> the tutorial.There are also some code clean ups that should be done.

Tutorials are always welcome, especially those with real applications.
The javadude antlr tutorial was awesome for this reason.

I vote yes.

Sohail



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