[Tack-devel] Announce: LLgen 1.0 released

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Because so little has happened for so long (there is development going on,=
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honest), I've decided to release a standalone version of the LLgen parser=20
generator --- it's simple, it doesn't need the rest of the ACK, and it's=20
genuinely useful.

LLgen is a LL(1) parser generator, quite similar to yacc or bison, that can=
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generate recursive descent parsers from Extended Context-Free grammars (whi=
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makes it quite a bit more useful than yacc or bison). The ACK uses it=20
extensively, but as it's a standalone component, I've decided that it would=
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be useful to distribute this separately. LLgen's input files are almost=20
identical to yacc's, so if you can use yacc and have been getting frustrate=
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with its limitations, LLgen is for you.

I've rewritten the build system and overhauled the source so it compiles=20
cleanly with gcc; it should work fine on modern systems (and extremely=20
quickly). The package contains full documentation, and LLgen is, like the=20
ACK, licensed under the new-style BSD license.

You can get it from the Sourceforge download page right next to the ACK:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D130811

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