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From: mpogue@vis01.dg.com (Mike Pogue)
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Subject: Needed: BNF parser/analyzer
Keywords: BNF
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Date: 10 Aug 90 14:07:43 GMT
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   I'm looking for a public domain version of lex/yacc (or
something similar) that takes BNF instead of lex/yacc descriptions
of a grammar.

   The reason I need BNF, is because I have the description of 
a language in BNF form already, and I don't want to spend the time translating
that to lex/yacc format.

   I'm not an expert in grammars, but I believe that the BNF I have
describes a language without any weird difficult features.  i.e. it's 
a relatively simple token-based grammar, with no difficult lookahead
required.
  
   Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mike Pogue
Data General Corp.