Re: Parser for cmd language?

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Henri Verbeet  wrote:
> 2009/12/17 Dan Kegel :
> > I wonder if http://www.antlr.org/ would be overkill for generating
> > the parser.   It does support generating C... might be a fun
> > thing to try, anyway.  ANTLR does seem to be the most popular
> > parser generator these days.
>
> That needs Java.

But only when generating the parser.  It can output a pure C parser.

If it's not ok to require Java to build (and I could imagine that),
we could check in ANTLR's output.  Then only people
hacking on cmd would need java installed.