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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
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Subject: Re: Yacc and lex in lisp?
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Date: 23 Sep 89 20:44:43 GMT
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In article <45996@bbn.COM> aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger) writes:
> In article SRA.89Sep22085128@mccarthy.ecs.soton.ac.uk, Stephen Adams 
writes:
> 
> 
>   Does anyone know of any parsing tools like lex and yacc, but written
>   in lisp?  I would prefer common lisp or scheme.
> 
> 
> This question comes up from time to time. Below is the beginning of a
> description of the package, CGOL. Note that the syntax is only the
> default and is completely rewritable. (I did a semi-automated Simula
> to Flavors translator with it at one time.)

It might be worth point out that, with reader macros, the Common Lisp 
"READ" function is essentially a programmable recursive-descent parser.

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