Re: A Plain English Compiler

"Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:51:05 +0100

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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:51:05 +0100
Organization: virginmedia.com
References: 14-10-005 06-02-122 06-02-125 14-10-006
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 27 Oct 2014 15:02:32 EDT

John,


> I wonder if the OP has a clue how compilers work? If he has, he might
> want to try his hand at writing a BNF grammar for English.
  >
> [As I said back in 2006, it's not hard to make an easy to parse subset of English,
> but that's COBOL. -John]


The closest I have seen so far is Attempto:
http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/



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