List of Programming Languages By Type - Syntax Handling Languages

Syntax Handling Languages

These languages assist with generating lexical analyzers and parsers for Context-free grammars.

  • ANTLR
  • Candle (instead of generating lexical analyzers or parsers, Candle takes EBNF kind of grammar and generate the AST of the source)
  • Coco/R (EBNF with semantics)
  • GNU bison (FSF's version of Yacc)
  • GNU Flex (FSF's version of Lex)
  • lex (Lexical Analysis, from Bell Labs)
  • M4
  • yacc (yet another compiler compiler, from Bell Labs)
  • JavaCC
  • Rats!

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