Generating LR parsers from EBNF?

Stephen Adams, hello!


  BUT, to ALL as well:


  I am a 58 - year-old retired man with an interest in making games
that are _story-driven_, and I want to make a software component of
one of my games that will handle a "reasonable" subset of English, ala
Naomi Sager's _Natural Language Processing_ book. I have her BNF, but
the parser-generator I am used to most was Wilf LaLonde's, with the
PL/I SOURCE CODE for the BNF ANALYZER, the SCANNER, and
PARSER-GENERATOR.


  So naturally, I Goggled this a lot, but this method didn't work.


    It's been a *long* time, and Mr. LaLonde himself no longer has a copy. He
said he'd gladly give it to me if he had it.


DO YOU OR DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE A COPY OF THIS PL/I SOURCE CODE MIGHT BE
???


If so, would you send it snail-mail to


  Gary F. Goodman
  10918 W. Monte Vista Rd.
  Avondale AZ. 85323


So, what I will do, is, copy it out, put it on disk, and send it back to Mr.
LaLonde, as a kind of thank -you. Then I'll convert the algorithms into
something more to my taste, like Visual Basic 6.0 or Delphi.


Then I'll write and test the game, and whoever actually sends me a copy of
the PL/I source will get a beta version of the game -- called "The Novanon."


Thanks much!


Gary

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