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ANTLR v4 is a powerful parser generator that you can use to read, process, execute, or translate structured text or binary files. Itâs widely used in academia and industry to build all sorts of languages, tools, and frameworks. Twitter search uses ANTLR for query parsing, with more than 2 billion queries a day. The languages for Hive and Pig and the data warehouse and analysis systems for Hadoop all use ANTLR. Lex Machina[2] uses ANTLR for information extraction from legal texts. Oracle uses ANTLR within the SQL Developer IDE and its migration tools. The NetBeans IDE parses C++ with ANTLR. The HQL language in the Hibernate object-relational mapping framework is built with ANTLR.
Aside from these big-name, high-profile projects, ...
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