[Gardeners] proposal for a new project

[Alan Rossum]

HI.

I am a lisp newbie. My previous background in programming is mostly writing
compilers in C.
I was interested in making something like a package for text processing
tasks in lisp.
The idea is to integrate a regular expression library (probably cl-ppcre),
parser generator (cl-yacc? .. i actually wanted to write my own too)  , a
portable pathname library (i havent read PCL but i believe it has one).

The idea is to INTEGRATE :
i) this means providing coherent interface not a 'bunch of code'
ii) provide nice solid documentation.
iii) provide examples .. lots of them. for example starting with .. how to
read and sum numbers from a file (like the shootout benchmark) to writing
simple grammars.

The nice thing is that all the libraries are pure lisp so a newbie like me
can study them.
I can later try and integrate xml parsers but not right now since i have
never worked with xml.

alan
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