[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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