Oct. 4, 2019
7:29 a.m.
Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anquetil@inria.fr> wrote:
On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:54 +0200, Santiago Bragagnolo wrote:
Hi there! I am trying to build a parser for visual basic. For doing so i found the Antlr definition of VB on the microsoft site.
I tried with fortran and the answer was: Not so easy. But then again, Fortran predates the theory of languages and it was not defined to be easily parseable with a formal grammar.
On the other hand, you know that you can parse these kinds of languages with 16K of ram, one 80 character line at a time. Stephan