This book is a reference guide for the parser generator ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, and the tree-parser generator SORCERER, which is suited to source-to-source translation. SORCERER does not fit into the translator generator category perfectly because it translates trees, whereas the typical translator generator can only be used to translate text directly, thus hiding any intermediate steps or data structures from the programmer. The ANTLR and SORCERER team more closely supports what programmers would build by hand. Specifically, ANTLR recognizes textual input and generates an intermediate form tree, which can be manipulated by a SORCERER-generated tree-walker; however, both tools can be used independently. |
