HI. I am a lisp newbie. My previous background in programming is mostly writing compilers in C. I was interested in making something like a package for text processing tasks in lisp. The idea is to integrate a regular expression library (probably cl-ppcre), parser generator (cl-yacc? .. i actually wanted to write my own too) , a portable pathname library (i havent read PCL but i believe it has one).
The idea is to INTEGRATE : i) this means providing coherent interface not a 'bunch of code' ii) provide nice solid documentation. iii) provide examples .. lots of them. for example starting with .. how to read and sum numbers from a file (like the shootout benchmark) to writing simple grammars. The nice thing is that all the libraries are pure lisp so a newbie like me can study them. I can later try and integrate xml parsers but not right now since i have never worked with xml. alan
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