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Yeah, parser combinators are basically magic, and not in an “overly clever code that you’ll regret later” sense. And, while a Haskell-style type system makes them nicer, they work really well in dynamically typed languages too. (e.g. https://github.com/drewc/smug )

> whole implementation fits in your head too Of the axiomatic core. But not of any programming language. > But it turns out that this axiomatic core is too impoverished for a lot of programming. It's not even a programming language. It's just an axiomatic core. If you try to use it for programming you must be doing something wrong. > is writing a lexer. I don't see anything that Lisp offers you in that respect. Lisp is a language family, not language implementation with a library, which happens to include a lexer library. If you mean Common Lisp as a programming language with implementations, there are portable lexers. http://www.cliki.net/LEXER https://github.com/drewc/smug https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder Writing your own lexer in Lisp shouldn't be too hard. People have written applications in Lisp which includes lexer functio

See http://mr.gy/maintenance/mpc (self-plug). A friendly fork of Drew Crampsie's Smug¹. MPC is a monadic parser combinators library. It provides a toolbox of predefined parsers, facilities for error handling and parses arrays, streams and lists. [1] https://github.com/drewc/smug