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""Parr's clear writing and lighthearted style make it a pleasure to learn the practical details of building language processors." " Dan Bornstein - Designer of the Dalvik VM for Android""ANTLR is an exceptionally powerful and flexible tool for parsing formal languages. At Twitter, we use it exclusively for query parsing in our search engine. Our grammars are clean and concise and the generated code is efficient and stable. This book is our go-to reference for ANTLR v4--engaging writing, clear descriptions and practical examples all in one place." " Samuel Luckenbill - Senior Manager of Search Infrastructure - Twitter, Inc.
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About the Author
Terence Parr is a professor of computer science and graduate programdirector at the University of San Francisco. He is the creator of theANTLR parser generator and StringTemplate engine, and also has broadindustrial experience related to language implementation. Terenceholds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and was apostdoctoral fellow at the Army High-Performance Computing ResearchCenter at the University of Minnesota.
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Series: Pragmatic Programmers
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; Second edition (January 25, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934356999
ISBN-13: 978-1934356999
Product Dimensions:
7.5 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
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Looks like a pretty decent book but you wont be able to see any diagrams or figures. They wont render. To illustrate complex ideas you really need them, thus, very hard to enjoy the book. I attached a picture of what it looks like on my iphone, ipad, and kindle paperwhite.
This book is excellent at teaching ANTLR, I only wish the author had re-ordered some of the chapters to teach you critical concepts first. Much of this book feels like an extremely long sales pitch instead of actually trying to teach you something.In chapter four the author is showing a lot of cool things that ANTLR can do for you, and the grammars that help accomplish that. However, he does not officially teach you how to write a grammar until chapter five. Chapter six shows you how you could use ANTLR to parse existing syntaxes, but it does not really teach you anything new. I wish the author had condensed his sales pitch to five pages or less, instead of dedicating whole chapters to it. In other words, I would have put chapters four and six somewhere farther back in the book, and focused on really teaching you the syntax of ANTLR grammars, and how to use its features.Despite that, the book did a great job of explaining how to write ANTLR grammars and use them in your code. All of the online documentation I found on ANTLR was horrible, trying to get by without this book is crazy. Along the way, I came to love ANTLR as a tool, since it could save me a ton of development time, and since it supports so many great features. It's just a really powerful tool by itself.I would highly recommend this book to anybody.
I have no formal training in computer science but have been mucking with them since core memory times. This book is a joy to read (I am slow and had to read it a couple times.) The language is immensely powerful but very easy to use. I was able to translate the book java to C# easily and write a solution that I needed by sundown without knowing anything about lexing or parsing till I got to page 13 early one morning. On page 14 I learned that "you can't put too much water into a nuclear reactor." The co-author Sam Harwell has done the C# translation and the Visual Studio bits. Also look at antlrworks2 tool. It is amazing that something so powerful is free. After reading this, I bought the author's other popular book: "Language implementation patterns" and learned a lot more. There is a large public domain library of ANTLR4 grammars for a host of situations so you may not need to start from scratch. If you are trying to write code to parse stuff, stop playing with RegEx's and learn this.
I hadn't really worked with parser tools in over 20 years, and the last time I used Lex/Yacc it was painful enough that I just hand coded my parser.It turns out that Terence Parr seemed to have a similar experience, and decided to do something about it. ANTLR4 is an amazingly powerful tool for parsing. The reference is a great place to start to develop your own *.g4 ANTLR grammar file.I found getting a parser using ParseTreeListeners was pretty easily accomplished, and the resulting JAVA code can be given to other non parser folks (the Listener code you write... not the auto generated stuff). In the past I always found anything associated with lexx/yacc/bison was too convoluted to explain to anyone. But ANTLR4 care and feeding is human managable.The one issue I have with the language deals with large HUGE files which consume too much memory. I'm trying to figure a way to use parse tree listeners and "dump" the parse tree periodically. The solutions for large files currently appear to require you use grammar actions, which are great, and easier to develop than the parse tree listeners... but ANTLR4's advantage over ANTLR3 is that you don't have to put any parser actions into the grammar... I find that a bonus, but that seems to limit processing for large files.
This book is a definite purchase if you want to get into ANTLR4 quickly, or if you aren't very experienced working with lexer/parsers. The content is well written, and goes into much more depth than what you get from the ANTLR documentation online. It has definitely helped me get up and running in a very short period of time.There is just one shortcoming in this book: it is very difficult to find exactly the information you're looking for.- Want to know how to import grammars? Well that's clearly under the "Matching an Arithmetic Expression Language" section of Chapter 4: A Quick Tour.- Want to split a lexer and parser into separate files? I know I read that *somewhere* in this book, but now I can't find it. Let's turn to the index and look up "options", but there's no entry for "options" in the index. Ok, found it under the "Grammar" index heading.Maybe I'm nitpicking, but when I'm buying a Capital-D Capital-R Definitive Reference of anything, I'm expecting to be able to navigate easily to the information that I need quickly. This book suffers shortcomings in these three things:1) The book needs a more detailed table of contents that includes section subheadings, which is where all the useful detail headings exist.2) The book needs a better cross-referenced index. Put an "O -> Options -> See Grammar Options" so that new readers aren't penalized for not yet having a firm grasp of a new vocabulary they're trying to learn. Good indexes are actually a helpful learning tool.3) The Reference portion of the book could use it's own TOC, or a cheat-sheet with corresponding page reference within the book. Often, you forget the exact thing you're looking for, and seeing a grouped list of keywords is helpful when you're trying to get something to jump out at you and jog your memory.As a result of these shortcomings, I'm more frequently turning to Google to find what I'm looking for because this book makes you work hard to find what part of the reference has the references you need to refer to. I would say that this is a flaw in any reference book, not a feature.
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