[H-ANNOUNCE] antlr talk

[Elspeth Thorne]

Hey all,

Clinton Roy will be giving a talk on antlr at the upcoming humbug,
14th July, starting at 6pm.

Regards,

Elspeth Thorne.

Abstract.

You've been there before, you can almost solve your current parsing
problem with this horribly complicated regular expression, with
look-aheads and look-behinds and nested groups..you know you should be
using a real parser to solve the problem, but Yacc is too big a hammer
to solve this problem. ANTLR is designed to be an easy to use parser
generator, with a combined lexer and parser grammar, a natural, easy
to follow, parsing algorithm and the ability to generate the parser in
your favourite language.

If you're working in a dedicated field you've probably wanted to
describe your problem in a Domain Specific Language, but have seen the
task of describing and parsing your language as too difficult, ANTLR
is designed to make this task easy.