Building a new parser starts with envisioning the language you want to recognize. Write a few sample sentences of the language that you want, and write a grammar that comprehends these examples. A grammar shows the pattern of strings in your language and serves as a design document. Next, translate your grammar to code and verify that your parser recognizes the sample strings of your language. Once you get a parser working that recognizes your examples, you can add more grammar rules. You can work iteratively to build the complete language you want to recognize. At some point, you must start creating the auxiliary classes that let your parser do more than just recognize an input string. These supporting classes are assemblers and potentially a target. After a subparser recognizes text, the subparser's assembler can work on the assembly that contains the text. This work may be limited to the assembly's stack, or it may include changes to the assembly's target. You have complete control over how you define a target class except that your class must implement PubliclyCloneable .
Work iteratively, creating your parser as a composition of subparsers and plugging in assemblers that build a target. In a short time you can learn to create powerful new languages from these few steps.
