Meta-language for mxTextTools

[Christian Tismer]

"Tony J. Ibbs (Tibs)" wrote:
> 
> Christian Tismer wrote:
> >Can you express the parser for the little language with the tagging
> >engine? That would be a funny bootstrap :-)
> 
> My intention is to write the parser to the little language *in* the little
> language, and then to hand-translate it to tuples. It may be that I don't
> have to implement all of the little language before I can use it to
> bootstrap the rest (I seem to remember languages like BCPL worked in this
> manner).

I remember very well! BCPL is mentioned very rarely on this list!
Great, exactly what I meant.

...

> (it's actually just an excuse to understand how mxTextTools
> works, believe it or not!).

I believe it, have been though that tuple assembly, too. :-)
good luck - chris

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     (just increasing the counter. BCPL BCPL BCPL BCPL BCPL BCPL).