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diff --git a/devel/semantic/DESCR b/devel/semantic/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e03e276f490 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/semantic/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +The Semantic Bovinator is a lexer, parser-generator, and parser. It is +written in Emacs Lisp and is customized to the way Emacs thinks about +language files, and is optimized to use Emacs' parsing capabilities. + +The Semantic Bovinator's goal is to provide an intermediate API for +authors of language agnostic tools who want to deal with languages in +a generic way. It also provides a simple way for Mode Authors who are +experts in their language to provide a parser for those tool +authors, without knowing anything about those tools. + +The Semantic Bovinator is made up of these important pieces: + 1. lexer + 2. parser + 3. parser-generator + 4. language definitions + 5. navigator + 6. speedbar browser + 7. Documentation generator |