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.

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

Versions

• Last known version: ANTLR 4.5.30 (2016-01-30)

Prerequisites

• Java 6 or higher

Links & publications

• ANTLR homepage
• ANTLR Github page

• Terence Parr: The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference - 2013 - ISBN 978-1-93435-699-9

License

• Open source software released under the Three clause BSD license

Authors

• Terence Parr
• Sam Harwell