An attempt to tweak Lemon so that it might generate parsers in PureBasic.
Project created by Tristano Ajmone in 2021/07/14.
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/lemon/— upstream Lemon sources./lemon-pb/— Lemon PB work folder.
Lemon is a well known LALR(1) parser generator, written in C89 by Richard Hipp during the late 1980s, and released into the public domain.
Third parties have already successfully tweaked the Lemon parser to generate parsers in other languages; so I decided to take my chance and attempt to mod Lemon to make it generate parsers in PureBasic.
This project is mostly an excuse to force myself into studying the Lemon source code in detail, improve my C skills, and learn more about the inner workings of parser generators.
DISCLAIMER — There's no ETA, and surely no urgency on my side to complete this project — there's a long road ahead, and lot's of work, and the project might never reach completion, and I'm not even 100% sure it's doable at all. But none of this really matters, for I'll be working on it on-and-off, during my spare time, for the fun of it and nothing more.
The original Lemon parser was created by Richard Hipp in the late 1980s, its code and documentation are in the public domain.
As for the Lemon PureBasic code and documents, modified or created by Tristano Ajmone, they are also released into the public domain via the CC0 license:
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- Lemon on Wikipedia
- Lemon homepage
- Lemon documentation
- Upstream Lemon sources on SQLite repository (Fossil):
- tajmone/lemon-grove — The Lemon parser, sibling projects, forks and assets — all in one place.