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. -- Frank B. Brokken Computing Center, University of Groningen (+31) 50 363 9281 Public PGP key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/ Key Fingerprint: 8E36 9FC4 1DAA FCDF 1A0D B19F DAC4 BE50 38C6 6170
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