Preface
The premise of this book is that by learning how to work with parsers, you can create new computer languages that exactly fit your domain. When you create a language, you give your language users a new way to control their computers. By learning about parsers, you learn to define the way your users interact with computers using text.
Who Should Read This Book
This book assumes you have a good understanding of Java and would like to learn how to do the following:
Use a handful of tools to create new computer languages quickly.
Translate the design of a language into code.
Create new computer languages with Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Accept an arithmetic formula from your user and compute its result.
Accept and apply matching expressions ...
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