About:
The Lemon program is an LALR(1) parser generator. It takes a context free grammar and converts it into a subroutine that will parse a file using that grammar. Lemon is similar to the much more famous programs "YACC" and "BISON". But lemon is not compatible with either yacc or bison. There are several important differences: Lemon uses a different grammar syntax which is less prone to programming errors. The parser generated by Lemon is both re-entrant and thread-safe. Lemon includes the concept of a non-terminal destructor, which makes it much easier to write a parser that does not leak memory.

Author:
D. Richard Hipp [contact developer]

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8.45/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/index.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development, Software Development :: Code Generators

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0	17-Jul-1999	GNU General Public License (GPL)

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