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+Syntax is a lexical analysis framework. It supports pluggable syntax
+modules, and comes with modules for Ruby, XML, and YAML. It means you
+can use Syntax to take a body of text representing instructions in
+some syntax (like Ruby), and break that text into tokens. You could
+conceivably use it to count the number of classes in a system, or the
+number of lines of code per method. But Syntax was written
+specifically with syntax highlighting in mind.