Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "Derek M. Jones" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: A Plain English Compiler Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:51:05 +0100 Organization: virginmedia.com Lines: 11 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-10-007@comp.compilers> References: <14-10-005@comp.compilers> <06-02-122@comp.compilers> <06-02-125@comp.compilers> <14-10-006@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1414436552 78816 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (27 Oct 2014 19:02:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: design Posted-Date: 27 Oct 2014 15:02:32 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1392 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/