From: Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney <devi.webmaster@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T05:47:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby tools to develop compilers

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Le Lann Jean-Christophe
<jean-christophe.lelann@orange.fr> wrote:
>
>  RACC
>  ANTLR (ruby generator)
>  Treetop
>  Ruby-lex, Ruby- yacc
>
>  Any other one ? Which one do you use ?
>
>  Bye!
>  JC
>

Ruby-lex isn't a lexer written in Ruby usable for other grammars, it
is a lexer for the ruby language itself.

Treetop is by far the easiest to work with.
Also not on your list, is ragel, which builds very fast state machines.

Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney