Choosing Patterns and Assembling Applications
I chose the patterns in this book because of their importance and how often you’ll find yourself using them. From my own experience and from listening to the chatter on the ANTLR interest list, we programmers typically do one of two things. Either we implement DSLs or we process and translate general-purpose programming languages. In other words, we tend to implement graphics and mathematics languages, but very few of us build compilers and interpreters for full programming languages. Most of the time, we’re building tools to refactor, format, compute software metrics, find bugs, instrument, or translate them to another high-level language.
If we’re not building implementations for general-purpose ...
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