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[1] [2] It is specialized for use in text editors, as it supports incremental parsing for updating parse trees while code is edited in real time, [3] and provides a built-in S-expression query system for analyzing code.
Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system developed by Stephen C. Johnson.It is a lookahead left-to-right rightmost derivation (LALR) parser generator, generating a LALR parser (the part of a compiler that tries to make syntactic sense of the source code) based on a formal grammar, written in a notation similar to Backus–Naur form (BNF). [1]
Regular languages are a category of languages (sometimes termed Chomsky Type 3) which can be matched by a state machine (more specifically, by a deterministic finite automaton or a nondeterministic finite automaton) constructed from a regular expression.
[1] [2] It is commonly used with the yacc parser generator and is the standard lexical analyzer generator on many Unix and Unix-like systems. An equivalent tool is specified as part of the POSIX standard. [3] Lex reads an input stream specifying the lexical analyzer and writes source code which implements the lexical analyzer in the C ...
Ragel is a finite-state machine compiler and a parser generator. Initially Ragel supported output for C, C++ and Assembly source code, [4] later expanded to support several other languages including Objective-C, D, Go, Ruby, and Java. [5] Additional language support is also in development. [6]
Lemon is a parser generator, maintained as part of the SQLite project, that generates a look-ahead LR parser (LALR parser) in the programming language C from an input context-free grammar. The generator is quite simple, implemented in one C source file with another file used as a template for output. Lexical analysis is performed externally.
Berkeley Yacc (byacc) is a Unix parser generator designed to be compatible with Yacc.It was originally written by Robert Corbett and released in 1989. [3] Due to its liberal license and because it was faster than the AT&T Yacc, it quickly became the most popular version of Yacc. [4]
It is the lexer generator adopted by projects such as PHP, [4] SpamAssassin, [5] Ninja build system [6] and others. Together with the Lemon parser generator, re2c is used in BRL-CAD. [7] This combination is also used with STEPcode, an implementation of ISO 10303 standard. [8]