Dear list / Debian Sponsors,
I'm looking for a sponsor and advocate for my program Bisonc++. You'll
find the details about Bisonc++ below. Don't hesitate to contact me if there
are any questions or remarks related to Bisonc++.
Packages: bisonc++
License: Academic Free License
Location: http://bisoncpp.sourceforge.net/
Short Description: Bison-style parser generator for C++
Current Version: 1.01
Long Description:
Bisonc++ was designed after `bison++', created by Alain Coetmeur. Bisonc++
adds to bisonc++ a cleaner class-design, using a base-class to communicate
lexical tokens to a lexical scanner.
Since bisonc++ generates the parser class as well as the parsing
function. The class can easily be provided with additional members without
needing polymorphic functions. Consequently, classes generated by bisonc++
have no virtual members and actually have but one public member: parse(),
replacing the old-style bison and bisonc++ yyparse() function.
Bisonc++ offers many options, among which an option to define classes
generated by bisonc++ in a separate namespace. This allows developers to
define additional symbols, even outside of the class generated by bisonc++,
without encountering name-collision problems. With bisonc++, artificial means
to prevent name-collisions, like bison and bisonc++'s yy-convention are not
required anymore when using bisonc++. Bisonc++ merely generates C++ code. If
C code is required, bison should be used. Bisonc++'s grammar requirements are
highly compatible with bison's requirements, so converting a bison grammar
into a bisonc++ grammar should be fairly simple.
In addition to the bisconc++ parser generator itself and several skeleton
files, the package contains an extensive man-page, a full manual rewritten
after the original bison manual, and several examples.
Some history: Bisonc++ versions 0.98 is a complete rewrite of an LALR(1)
parser generator, as described in Aho, Sethi and Ullman's (1986) book
`Compilers' (a.k.a. the `Dragon Book'). Version 0.98 was completed in May
2005. Another major rewite was completed one year later, May 2006, resulting
in version 1.00.
Note:
Bisonc++ requires libbobcat1 to run and libbobcat1-dev to compile. Libbobcat
was submitted with a `Request For Sponsor' separately.
About the author:
dr. Frank B. Brokken is security manager and lecturer (C/C++) at the
University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Together with Karel Kubat he wrote
the program icmake (an article about icmake was published in the very first
issue of `The Linux Journal') and the pre-document language `Yodl'. Both
are available as Debian packages. Frank also wrote an published an extenstive
tutorial on C++, the C++ Annotations, which is found at
http://www.icce.rug.nl/documents/cplusplus. More information about his C++
course is found at http://www.icce.rug.nl/edu.
In his spare time Frank is a professional flight instructor.
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Frank B. Brokken
Computing Center, University of Groningen
(+31) 50 363 9281
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