[antlr-interest] Released first product with ANTLR3 C#

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Mon May 7 16:59:05 PDT 2007


On May 7, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Dr. Hartmut Kocher wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  just wanted to let you know that I delivered a new version of our  
> software to a client. We have rewritten all lexer and parsers to  
> use ANTLR 3. Together with the fixes I posted during the last  
> months, the C# code generator worked just fine. ANTLR 3 is so much  
> better and easier to use than V2, so it was well worth the effort.  
> It allowed us to easily build some new features that would have  
> taken much longer using the previous version.

Glad to know you got that working.  Hooray!  Congrats on your  
software delivery!

>  Finally, performance is great (much faster than before). Debugging  
> is easier because there are no more exceptions during parsing  
> (ANTLR 2 used MismatchedTokenExceptions to backtrack).

Good to hear.  I think new LL(*) and backtracking mechanisms reduce  
cost greatly.
>  So thanks for a great job Terence.
>
>  I will update our parsers to the official 3.0 version, when it’s  
> ready. BTW your new book helped understanding quite some issues. I  
> can only recommend it to everyone.
Thanks for the endorsement :)

Ter


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