Current parsing techniques in software renovation considered harmful
Mark van den Brand, Alex Sellink, Chris Verhoef · 2002
We evaluate the parsing technology used by people working in the reengineering industry. We discuss parser generators and complete systems like Yacc, TXL, TAMPR, REFINE, CobolTransformer, COSMOS, and ASF+SDF. We explain the merits and drawbacks of the various techniques. We conclude that current technology may cause problems for the reengineering industry and that modular and/or compositional parsing techniques are a possible solution.