Indeed. As someone with no real language background it allowed me to get to a state where I can create my own DSLs. An alternative would be to use something li

Indeed. As someone with no real language background it allowed me to get to a state where I can create my own DSLs. An alternative would be to use something like Xtext (which also allows you to create langauge tools, not just the language itself). I played around with it and it's very nice (granted you'll kind of need to embrace Eclipse) but ultimately decided that ANTLR was "enough".