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The Congo Parser Generator is, at its core, a classic recursive descent parser generator. Now, I have to assume that many readers do not really understand what that means. For now, let me just make the following key point: when you use a tool like this to gene...

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CongoCC is a more advanced version of the legacy JavaCC tool. The current version is the result of a huge amount of restructuring and refactoring with the following main goals: To make the tool much more useful and usable, out of the box To fix a lot of the d...

What is CongoCC CongoCC a Java program and its main functionality is a "parser-generator". That is, CongoCC generates "parsers". A parser is a program that takes in as input a text file, parses the text file, and — in typical usage — generates a data structure...

Parsers in detail The previous section described parsers at a high-level and described when they may be used. In this section, we're going to look at parsers in closer look. The concepts discussed here are foundational to how CongoCC works and is required if y...