[fpc-pascal] Parser Generator

[Carlo Kok]

On 2016-05-19 13:10, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am currently looking into integrating a custom language parser into my
> program and have been
> searching the web for parser generators that can create Pascal code from
> a custom language.
>
> So far in my search i have found the following "options":
>
> * GOLD Parser: http://www.goldparser.org/
> Was last updated in sept. 2012 and the lastest pascal implementation is
> not for the lastest version of the program!
>
> * COCO/R: http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Research/Projects/Coco/
> Same as with the GOLD parser - last updated in 2014 and lastest pascal
> implementation is for an older version of the program.
>
> * TP Yacc/Lex: (included in Free Pascal)
> Is included with Free Pascal, but the generated code is non-OO, and
> seems to rely on text-files for input.
>
> So if there is anyone out there who knows of such a generator I would be
> glad to know.
>

It's been my experience that all the compiler compilers have one or more 
flaws that make it more work in the end to use them than to just write a 
parser by hand.


-- 
Carlo Kok