[Wikitext-l] Cunningham's exploratory parsing

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Rose" <erik at mozilla.com>

> Say, while everybody's trying to figure out a formal grammar, have you
> had a look at Ward Cunningham's exploratory parsing kit? He gave me a
> demo at OSBridge, and it's a really handy tool. Basically, it's a web
> app with an asynchronous C backend. You paste a tentative PEG grammar
> into a textarea, and it runs through whatever corpus you want, showing
> you representative instances of how it does or does not match. He was
> running it against the full English Wikipedia on his laptop, and it
> took only half an hour or something—with results coming in as they
> were generated, of course.

If I correctly understood what you said just there...

*wow*.

Cheers,
-- jra
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