[Rets-dev] [Fwd: [Bookshelf] ANTLR for Domain Specific Languages]

[Paula OBrien]

We also used ANTLR as the grammar parser to build the Java RQL implementation for the RETS2 reference implementation server.  It was a relatively easy process!  

The book mentioned below looks quite interesting.

"Keith T. Garner" <kgarner at crt.realtors.org> wrote: The attached may be of interest to anyone looking at ANTLR as a grammar parser
in their RQL implementations.

As you may remember, the RQL C# example that Dave tossed together was built
using ANTLR.

Keith

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To: announce at lists.pragprog.com
From: Andrew Hunt <andy at pragmaticbookshelf.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:27:36 -0500
Subject: [Bookshelf] ANTLR for Domain Specific Languages

 We're pleased to announce that "The Definitive ANTLR Reference:  
Building Domain-Specific Languages"
by ANTLR author Terence Parr is now available in BETA.

For details, please visit http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/tpantlr
ANTLR is a parser generator: a program that generates code to  
translate a specified input language into a nice, tidy data  
structure. You might think that parser generators are only used to  
build compilers. But in fact, programmers usually use parser  
generators to build translators and interpreters for domain-specific  
languages such as proprietary data formats, common network protocols,  
text processing languages, and domain-specific programming languages.

Domain-specific languages are important to software development  
because they represent a more natural, high fidelity, robust, and  
maintainable means of encoding a problem than simply writing software  
in a general-purpose language. For example, NASA uses domain-specific  
command languages for space missions to improve reliability, reduce  
risk, reduce cost, and increase the speed of development. Even the  
first Apollo guidance control computer from the 1960s used a domain- 
specific language that supported vector computations.

This book is the definitive guide to using the completely rebuilt  
ANTLR v3 and describes all features in detail, including the amazing  
new LL(*) parsing technology, tree construction facilities,  
StringTemplate code generation template engine, and sophisticated  
ANTLRWorks GUI development environment. You'll learn all about ANTLR  
grammar syntax, resolving grammar ambiguities, parser fault tolerance  
and error reporting, embedding actions to interpret or translate  
languages, building intermediate-form trees, extracting information  
from trees, generating source code, and how to use the ANTLR Java API.


Available now from http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/tpantlr/

If you haven't participated in our Beta book program before, please  
read the FAQ at http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/starter_kit/faqs/ 
beta_faq.html

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