If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for
the vast and endless sea.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Imagine that, the day the new machine arrives,
you are maintaining a parser.
Your parser
is the…
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new home of the Ocean of Awareness blog. ]
This post is about
html_fmt,
a
Marpa-based
reformatter ("tidier") for liberal HTML.
html_fmt
indents HTML according to the structure of the document,
which makes the HTML a lot easier to read.
In the process
html_fmt…
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the new home of the Ocean of Awareness blog. ]
Marpa::R2
is now beta.
Marpa is a new parsing algorithm,
based on decades of prior art.
It is a practical and efficient solution
targeted at all parsing problems that are too
complex for regular expressions.
The
Marpa::R2
module is the m…