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"Do examples in the book use ANTLR?"

Yes. The book is "saturated" with ANTLR. I wouldn't buy it if you don't like ANTLR. Also, (purely imho) it spends too much time on the front end (lexing/parsing) and not enough on the rest. I have yet to see good books (other than DCPL or L.I.S.P) which uses a simple concrete syntax (s-expressions say) and focuses on the rest of compiler building.




Thanks. I've got a pretty good understanding of lexing & parsing, so I would have gotten it for the other parts, but I won't bother.




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