Chapter 3. Code generation tools
| 3.1 | Building generators with Ruby |
| 3.2 | Parsing XML with Rexml |
| 3.3 | ERb: a great tool for templates |
| 3.4 | Building the language parser toolkit |
| 3.5 | Summary |
This chapter discusses the tools used in this book for developing code generators. Like any application, a code generator uses a set of generic tools to perform its function. In this chapter we examine the Ruby programming language itself, as well as a utility for reading XML, a text-template library, and a parsing toolkit for computer languages (C, C++, Java, and SQL). All of these tools will be used in the generators presented in this book. ...
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