[antlr-interest] [v3] Lack of documentation

Bjoern Doebel doebel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Mon Jul 2 02:26:54 PDT 2007


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Hey,

one or two months ago, I didn't know about ANTLR at all and was pretty
frustrated by a combination of having to use Lex/YACC and having no idea
about parsing in general. I downloaded ANTLR, read several v2 tutorials I
found on the web and with the help of the wiki and some common sense was
even able to manage translating v2 examples into v3 as well as writing
stuff for my target language, which is Python.

Only at this point I bought the book, because I felt that I could get a lot
more out of ANTLR if I have a complete documentation and it helped me even
more. Thanks a lot for this.

I don't feel like taking part in discussions about missing documentation,
the true spirit of Open Source and evil programmers wanting to sell their
books instead of providing free documentation. However, I'm afraid that
it's always the satisfied people, who don't want to have these discussions
and that's why we end up with all those mails from whiners who just demand
things without even saying thank you.

Thanks a lot to everyone for making ANTLR a great tool.

Bjoern
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