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diff --git a/perl/perl-Pegex/README b/perl/perl-Pegex/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dba8a7c057 --- /dev/null +++ b/perl/perl-Pegex/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Pegex is an Acmeist parser framework. It allows you to easily create parsers +that will work equivalently in lots of programming languages! The inspiration +for Pegex comes from the parsing engine upon which the postmodern programming +language Perl 6 is based on. Pegex brings this beauty to the other justmodern +languages that have a normal regular expression engine available. + +Pegex gets it name by combining Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG), with +Regular Expessions (Regex). That's actually what Pegex does. + +PEG is the cool new way to elegantly specify recursive descent grammars. The +Perl 6 language is defined in terms of a self modifying PEG language called +Perl 6 Rules. Regexes are familiar to programmers of most modern programming +languages. Pegex defines a simple PEG syntax, where all the terminals are +regexes. This means that Pegex can be quite fast and powerful. + +Pegex attempts to be the simplest way to define new (or old) Domain Specific +Languages (DSLs) that need to be used in several programming languages and +environments. Things like JSON, YAML, Markdown etc. It also great for writing +parsers/compilers that only need to work in one language. |