ANTLR

An open source Java based parser generator, comes with a Java backend (i.e. ANTLR generated parsers are written in/compile with Java), but additional backends are available for C Sharp, ECMAScript and Python versions two and three. Early versions of ANTLR also generated C++ code and apparently there is work ongoing to re-introduce the feature to the toolkit.

Main ANTLR author Terence Parr was also responsible for the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set.

Versions

• ANTLR 4.5.30 (2016-01-30)

Prerequisites

• Java 6 or higher

License

• Open source software released under the Three clause BSD license
• Authors: Terence Parr, Sam Harwell

Publications

• Terence Parr: The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference - 2013, ISBN 1-934356-99-9

Links

• ANTLR homepage
• ANTLR Github page