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LangDev 2018: a meeting for Language Engineering enthusiasts
/in Miscellany /by Federico TomassettiI had the great opportunity to attend the first LangDev Meetup. It was organized by Markus Völter and Tijs van der Storm and it was hosted at CWI, in Amsterdam. Why was it great? Because there you could meet a lot of different people working in the Language Engineering space from different angles. There were […]
How to Add JARs to a Jetbrains MPS Project
/in Jetbrains MPS /by Gabriele TomassettiJetbrains MPS is a wonderful tool to create DSLs. We love it and use it regularly in our consultancy work. So we have written about Jetbrains MPS before. Being a projectional editor allows you to easily create DSLs that can be used through a graphical interface or things like mathematical formulas. Though all this power […]
Getting started with ANTLR in C#
/1 Comment/in ANTLR, Language Engineering /by Gabriele TomassettiReaders of this website will know that ANTLR is a great tool to quickly create parsers and help you in working with a known language or create your DSL. While the tool itself is written in Java, it can also be used to generate parsers in several other languages, for instance Python, C# or Javascript (with […]
Understand WebAssembly: Why It Will Change the Web
/in Language Engineering, Software Development /by Gabriele TomassettiThere is a new weapon in the great war against JavaScript the struggle to allow developers to choose their favorite style of programming while improve performance and their productivity. That weapon is WebAssembly, that will revolutionize client-side web development. WebAssembly, or wasm, is a low-level bytecode format for in-browser client-side scripting. If you are writing […]
Analyze and Understand Text: Guide to Natural Language Processing
/in Miscellany, Parsing /by Gabriele TomassettiWhat Can You Do With Natural Language Processing? Natural Language Processing (NLP) comprises a set of techniques to work with documents written in a natural language to achieve many different objectives. They range from simple ones that any developer can implement, to extremely complex ones that require a lot of expertise. The following table illustrate […]
A Guide to Parsing: Algorithms and Terminology
/in Parsing /by Gabriele TomassettiWe have already introduced a few parsing terms, while listing the major tools and libraries used for parsing in Java, C#, Python and JavaScript. In this article we make a more in-depth presentation of the concepts and algorithms used in parsing, so that you can get a better understanding of this fascinating world. We have […]
Parsing HTML: A Guide to Select the Right Library
/in Parsing /by Gabriele TomassettiHTML is a markup language with a simple structure. It would be quite easy to build a parser for HTML with a parser generator. Actually, you may not need even to do that, if you choose a popular parser generator, like ANTLR. That is because there are already available grammars ready to be used. HTML […]
JArchitect: review of a tool to manage your Java project
/in Code processing /by Federico TomassettiJArchitect is a software to analyze Java projects. I think we need to use software to reason about software. As software developers we are building software to help other professionals in doing their job but still we rely not so much on software to help us in our work. We like the romantic ideas of […]
Complete Review of NDepend: Static Analysis For Software Architects
/in Code processing /by Gabriele TomassettiNDepend is a tool that helps .NET developers to write beautiful code This is a definition that does not come from the official documentation, but from a post on the blog of its developer. We like it because it is more interesting than the technical one: NDepend is a static analysis tool for .NET code […]
EBNF: How to Describe the Grammar of a Language
/in Parsing /by Federico TomassettiThe EBNF is the most commonly used formalism to describe the structure of languages. In this article we are going to see: What the EBNF Examples of grammars defined with EBNF How we can define a grammar using EBNF A few things to consider when using EBNF How to use EBNF in practice today A summary […]