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Writing a Compiler Compiler - Insight on Use and Features
This is part of a series of questions which focuses on the sister project to the Abstraction Project, which aims to abstract the concepts used in language design in the form of a framework. The ...
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How to support mixed grammars?
I am currently writing a grammar for a programming language (PowerBuilder) and I am also collecting documentation about parsing and compilers creation.
Now I would like to add in my grammar (that ...
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Should I use a parser generator or should I roll my own custom lexer and parser code?
What specific advantages and disadvantages of each way to working on a programming language grammar?
Why/When should I roll my own? Why/When should I use a generator?
