On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
bison it is, then.
I'm thinking of having some ucla students do this, and it occurred to me that using "ply" might be a good way to start. ply is a nice lex/yacc implementation written in python that sounds good for prototyping. Once the grammer is far enough along, it'd be pretty easy to switch to c.
Maybe I'll noodle around with ply and see if I can implement a subset of cmd's language with it. Here's a tiny toy start: http://kegel.com/wine/cmd.py
ply home page: http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ example of use of ply in compiler course: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~siek/ecen4553/fall08/hw2.pdf