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Gareth McCaughan  
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 More options Nov 16 2002, 2:45 pm
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From: Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaug...@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:28:30 +0000
Local: Sat, Nov 16 2002 1:28 pm
Subject: Re: is Lisp used in text parsing and processing tasks?
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Larry Hunter wrote:
>  The best idea I have seen for escaping this hell could only be done in
>  lisp. Chris Riesbeck has written a lisp homework parser that checks
>  for hundreds of stylistic and semantic errors that he never wants to
>  see. Some of it only works for particular problems (generally taken
>  from Graham's CL book exercises), but others are generic. Students
>  have to get the programs to pass his autochecker before submitting it
>  for his review. Source code is available...

>    http://www.cs.nwu.edu/academics/courses/c25/exercises/critic.html

Very neat. That page doesn't say where to get the tool from;
it's at

    http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/c25/programs/cs325.zip

I'm not sure that "could only be done in lisp" is right, though.
(It's certainly easier in Lisp than in any other language I can
think of.) There are similar tools for other languages, not written
in Lisp. Even <shudder> C++.

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Gareth McCaughan  Gareth.McCaug...@pobox.com
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