Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anque...@inria.fr> wrote: > On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:54 +0200, Santiago Bragagnolo wrote: >> Hi there! >> I am trying to build a parser for visual basic. For doing so i found >> the Antlr definition of VB on the microsoft site. > > I tried with fortran and the answer was: Not so easy. > But then again, Fortran predates the theory of languages and it was not > defined to be easily parseable with a formal grammar.
On the other hand, you know that you can parse these kinds of languages with 16K of ram, one 80 character line at a time. Stephan