In this article, I am going to introduce you to ANTLR's powerful framework. Equipped with this framework, we will also write a relatively simple language that coordinates the process of shearing a metal sheet (or any other sheet). The first steps in the language are going to be relatively simple, but in the next articles, more and more details will emerge. In the end, we will have something fully-fledged and effectively functioning. So, without further ado, let's take a closer look at how ANTLR works.
What Is ANTLR? And How Can You Use It?
ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition), according to Terence Parr, "is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. It’s widely used to build languages, tools, and frameworks. From grammar, ANTLR generates a parser that can build and walk parse trees."