[antlr-interest] Book review

[Phil Oliver]

I just posted this review to Amazon, FYI.

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ANTLR (http://www.antlr.org/) is a useful free tool to create 
combined lexer/parsers for a given formal grammar definition, 
integrated with customized target language code. This book, written 
by the author of ANTLR, covers version 3, a recent rewrite of the 
system. Writing complex grammars is not an easy task, and ANTLR 
itself has its own difficulties; there is online documentation but 
it's not as detailed. I've only just started to use ANTLR as part of 
a larger project. Although I haven't yet read 100% of the book, the 
parts that I've read to date already justify the purchase. My chief 
complaint is that the index seems a bit weak (incomplete).

The bottom line is this: if you plan to spend any significant time 
with ANTLR v3, the book is an indispensable resource that will easily 
pay for itself.