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On 6/26/2011 8:42 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:25:01 -0400, Jeff Higgins
>> What means simple? JavaCC is the parser generator that I'm most familiar
>> with.<http://javacc.java.net/>

>       There are preprocessor commands.  For them, the first character
> of the line is "$".  All of the other lines are text to be processed.
> There is one level of string substitution.


A parser generator makes parsers for you.  You give it a syntax (like 
"starts with $") and it makes the parser.  Generally very efficient as 
it will do optimizations in the code that are hard to find.