Hello all,

> Does anyone know what's going on with the Gold Parser?
>
> If Devin can't or isn't going to continue developing the Gold Parser,
> could\would one of you KNOWLEDGABLE user\developer take up the challenge? I
> know there are a couple of you that are fairly intimatly familiar with
> Gold,
> and I think it would be a small tragedy to let it just die. If it weren't
> for the Free Gold Parser, I wouldn't know ANYTHING about Backus Noir Form,
> or programming language Gramars at all.

that's exactly the situation I feared all the last months. I was looking for
an alternative for my current BNF-engine which is the main part of my Ph. D.!
No support/progress since years, so I looked at Gold Parser here and then.
But meanwhile I'm cautious with all "free projects", and I noticed the absence
of any further development, too.

So my decision is to use ANTLR:
http://www.antlr.org/
I'm (relatively) sure that this project will never die. And the Java-based
grammar development environment ANTLRWorks is really great. I'm working now
about 10 years in that area, it's the best available tool, really.

Take some bucks ($ 24.00, only some pizzas) and buy the "The Definitive ANTLR
Reference":
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr/the-definitive-antlr-reference
I'm sure you will be amazed about the power of ANTLR, which is much more
capable compared to (E)BNF - mh, you can't compare it, it's another league.


Kind regards from Germany
Udo