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Re:Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data... by bshimmin on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:56AM (#8872786)
I was interested in "kangaroo"; Wikipedia suggests a kangaroo word should, in addition to having the same letters and in the same order as its parent, also have the same meaning (eg. masculine -> male), so "parse" isn't quite a kangaroo for "parsley", apparently. It'd be a moderately fun little challenge to write a little program to find some kangaroos - though Wiktionary (predictably) has a nice list already here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Kangaroo_words

"Parsley" is indeed a great name. I'll contribute another Parsley - a Flex framework of yore also bore that name.

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Re:Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data... by nvader on Monday January 12, 2015 @05:32AM (#8873163)
The reason I thought it was a kangaroo was specifically because it was being used as a name for a parsing library.

After a library is named "Parsley", the list of meanings for Parsley now includes "A parsing library", and so I see it as a kangaroo for Parse.

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