Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
by divtiwari on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:55AM
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Does his book actually teach you how to create a DSL using ANTLR and not just and overview? Btw the 2 books of his are almost a decade old, so are they any good now?
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Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
by breck on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:49PM
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Yes, it walks your through it step by step. I have https://pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr2/the-definitive-antlr-4-... and at least 1 more of his, forget where it is. I would say it is ageless (at least, until something better than ANTLR comes along—ohm is promising but not sure what the latest is with that).
"The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference" is absolutely the most understated title I've ever seen in a book. It's really more like "The Book That Will Change How you Look at Programming Languages Forever"
IMO anyway. I guess it depends on how much you've been exposed to parsers and grammars and compiler compilers already.