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Re:Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in p... by simonw on Sunday August 13, 2023 @07:39PM (#37115743)
That's pretty standard for parsing libraries - have you seen any good ones (for Python or other languages) that don't use a DSL like this?

The only one I've seen is this one: https://parsy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in p... by dleslie on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:42AM (#37117536)
Parse, comparse, parsec and PEGs come to mind.

1: https://github.com/massung/parse

2: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/comparse

3: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec

4: https://janet-lang.org/docs/peg.html

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in p... by zelphirkalt on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:23AM (#37118687)
Here is another PEG one, though Guile allows expressing things as strings and as macro calls / s-expressions:

5: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/PEG-Pars...

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