### About the Pep and Nom Blog The pep/nom system is a system for parsing and translating context-free languages. It uses the wp://Unix text-stream editing philosophy and applies it to formal languages and *patterns* . I hope you enjoy it! (I do) This blog written by me, *mjb<at>nomlang.org* is a set of posts exploring the potential of the *Parsing Engine for Patterns* (pep) and the *Nom* scripting language. Nom doesn't "stand for" anything but is similar to an indo-european root for "name" and may also be a vague accolade and reference to *Noam* Chomsky for his classification of formal languages. The home page for pep/nom is located at http://www.nomlang.org although all the source code, "examples" http://bumble.sf.net/books/pars/eg/ , translation scripts and other documentation is at "Sourceforge" http://bumble.sf.net/books/pars/ (Thankyou!). I will try to make these posts as general as possible, exploring ideas of language, parsing, compiling, transpiling and translating (although *pep/nom* in its current form is not suitable for translating natural human language). I also try to write a general blog about language, culture, art, travel, the garden, making things or whatever which is called "Shrob" http://shrob.org/blog/ ### Pep and Nom "Pep" is the *Parsing Engine for Patterns* and "Nom" is a scripting (and compilable) language for parsing and translating "context-free languages" wp:context-free_language . Nom "compiles" http://bumble.sf.net/books/pars/compile.pss itself and can also translate itself into other languages like "go" http://bumble.sf.net/books/pars/tr/translate.go.pss and tcl java and ruby and javascript. The *pep* pattern engine and the *Nom* parsing language form a system for parsing, translating, compiling and transpiling context-free languages. The system is, to some extent, experimental. The source code is located at "Sourceforge" http://bumble.sf.net/books/pars/ and there is also a "blog" http://peptool.org/blog on this server This site www.nomlang.org also contains extensive documentation for the nom language and the pep virtual pep://machine in the /doc/ folder. * an example script, word by word parsing --------- # the lexical analysis phase of the script while [:space:]; clear; whilenot [:space:]; put; clear; add "word*"; push; # the parsing/compiling phase parse> pop; pop; # format as one word per line "word*word*", "text*word*" { clear; get; add "\n"; ++; get; --; put; clear; add "text*"; push; .reparse } push; push; # when the end of the input-stream is encountered (eof) { pop; clear; get; print; quit; } ,,,,