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Re:ANTLR 4.6 Released by verdex_blarg on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:00AM (#13193655)
This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I keep on thinking that my life would be easier if I just adopted something like ANTLR, but every time I look into it it looks like it's more work than it's worth.

Good to hear that this has been a similar experience to people who have actually gone and actually used ANTLR.

Re:ANTLR 4.6 Released by vbezhenar on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:47AM (#13235896)
I needed to parse a tiny subset of SQL. I did it with ANTLR very quickly. It would take much more time doing it by hand, and I know quite a bit about parsing. For complex language it might be the other way, of course. Actually I never saw a single real programming language without hand-crafted parser. But if you need a tiny DSL, ANTLR is fine.