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A few months ago Clifton Royston posted an excellent entry titled Recursive descent parsing with BNF grammars. This inspired me to write about JavaCC, my favorite parser generator. Today I finally got around to putting together some examples. Academic articles on parser generators and meta-compilers can be pretty dry stuff. To keep this interesting, we are going to implement some new language…