[antlr-interest] Anltr 3.1.3

James Abley james.abley at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 11:39:55 PDT 2009


2009/6/14 Sam Barnett-Cormack <s.barnett-cormack at lancaster.ac.uk>:
> Bryan S Follins wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I'm assuming to use ANTLR, you have to create a grammar file using a text
>> editor?
>>
>> Then save the text file?
>>
>> Go to the command line and type the name of the file along with the
>> directory to access it?
>
> There's plenty of docs on the ANTLR website. I will say this, though -
> if you use ANTLRWorks, it does pretty much everything for you, except
> write the grammar!! It's a lot easier than trying to use it by hand. You
> can also get ANTLR plugins for lots of IDEs, including Eclipse, Netbeans
> (for which I think there's embedded ANTLRWorks), I think there might
> even be support for MS Visual Studio...
>
>> "If this is a course requirement, shouldn't there be support for this
>> from your department?"
>>
>> That is the $64,000 question, because there is no support. You have to play
>> email tag with your teacher for help.
>
> Do you have a student rep? Someone ought to be complaining.

+1. We had the odd awful lecturer and it was only after graduating
that it occurred to us that we were effectively customers paying for a
service (our education) and we should have kicked up a stink.

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sam Barnett-Cormack [mailto:s.barnett-cormack at lancaster.ac.uk]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 06:21
>> To: Bryan S Follins
>> Cc: antlr-interest at antlr.org
>> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Anltr 3.1.3
>>
>> Bryan S Follins wrote:
>>> I downloaded ANTLRv 3.1.3 on my computer.  I have XP, 2003. I downloaded
>>> the jar file, clicked to open it, but it  would not open.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> ANTLR isn't an executable JAR - it includes lots of libraries, the tool,
>> some other bits and bobs. If you download ANTLRworks, it'll just work,
>> *provided* you have an up-to-date JRE (preferably JDK) installed.
>>
>> If this is a course requirement, shouldn't there be support for this
>> from your department?
>>
>
>
> --
> Sam Barnett-Cormack
>
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