The main goal of the JavaCC 21 project, soon to be renamed as CongoCC, is to develop a very capable, practical, usable parser generator tool. However, there is another overarching goal — perhaps not so much a goal, as a philosophy. That can be summed up in a single word: Demystification You see, somehow or …
NFA stands for “Nondeterministic finite automaton”. (Does that make you nervous?) Read More »
A Little Parlor Game As I pointed out earlier here, in this parser space, there is a great tendency to express concepts — that, once understood, are actually quite simple — in a very abstruse, obfuscated manner. Recently, I was musing about a little conceptual experiment with some real comic potential. Imagine if basic Mathematics …
Since I started my work on resuscitating the JavaCC project, at least a couple of people have asked me how I can do this work if I have no theoretical background in computer science, specifically all this theory behind grammars and parsers. My response has typically amounted to saying: Watch me! I don’t know about …
Is All this Parsing theory just bullshit or what? Read More »