What parser generator do you recommend

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I'm currently shopping for a FOSS parser generator for a project of mine. It has to support either C or C++.

I've looked at bison/flex and at boost::spirit.

I went from writing my own to spirit to bison to spirit to bison to spirit, each time hit by some feature I found unpleasant.

The thing I hate most about bison/flex is that they actually generate C/C++ source for you. There are a number of disadvantages to this, e.g. debugging. I like spirit from this point of view, but I find it very very heavy on syntax.

I am curious about what you are using, what you would recommend, and general thoughts about the state of the art in parser generators. I am also curious to hear about approaches being used in other languages for parsing problems.

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