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