Milarepa

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Milarepa
       
           A {Perl} {BNF} {parser generator} by Jeffrey Kegler
          .  Milarepa takes a source {grammar}
          written in a mixture of {BNF} and {Perl} and generates Perl
          source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the


          language described by the grammar.  Milarepa is not restricted
          to {LRn grammars}, and the parse logic follows directly from
          the BNF.  It handles {ambiguous grammar}s, ambiguous tokens
          (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and
          allows the programmer to change the start symbol.  The grammar
          may not be {left recursive}.  The input must be divided into
          sentences of a finite maximum length.  There is no fixed
          distinction between {terminal}s and non-terminals, that is, a
          symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side
          of a production.  Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a
          single Perl program.
       
          Version: Prototype 1.0.
       
          Posted to comp.lang.perl.
       
          The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
       
          (1993-03-17)