Languages for Text handling and parsing

[zeitue]

In the OSdev wiki under the "getting started" page at point "Choosing your development environment" it says

Perl or Python: One of these two scripting languages should be installed. Useful for string manipulation, amongst other things. Perl used to be the recommendation, but Python is now quite mature, and is possibly easier to learn. Both have hundreds of packages/modules available for doing various tasks.

Does this include parsing?

I'd like to know are there other languages that would work for this besides Python and Perl?

Maybe Ruby, Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, PHP, BASH, Scala, R, ......?

[bluemoon]

It depends on what level of parsing you expect, PERL has built-in regex functions.

[iansjack]

There are also a number of Perl modules for more complicated parsing jobs. I'd say it's one of the better languages for this purpose. It is, after all, the sort of thing it was designed for.

[zeitue]

I'm looking for full level not just like code parser and regexp but also parsing of natural languages.
I have an idea to integrate translation into the core of the system, and allow translated strings at a very low level; so users can use their native language at base. I know this will be hard.
I'll have a translation server that all user output will be sent through before reaching the users eyes.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not but it does not hurt to try

[bluemoon]

For anything more complicate than parsing tokens you may consider yacc or other parser generator.

[zeitue]

So any language that has a parser generator like lex and yacc will work great then

So the answer is any language then, thanks

I do hope this idea works though.

[trinopoty]

If I understand you correctly. You are trying to say that the user will command the os in his/her natural language?

[zeitue]

If I understand you correctly. You are trying to say that the user will command the os in his/her natural language?

Yes, that is correct.
I intend for there to be no language seen anywhere but the user's native or selected language.

[Mikemk]

By language, do you mean computer language or human language?

[zeitue]

By language, do you mean computer language or human language?

I mean computer language

I have a language that is a human language, I'm developing for this too though.

[Mikemk]

It would be neat, though incredibly difficult, to implement english into the main ui of an operating system, rather than clickable points/character codes.

PS, this is a [side] goal in my os

[zeitue]

It would be neat, though incredibly difficult, to implement english into the main ui of an operating system, rather than clickable points/character codes.

PS, this is a [side] goal in my os

Actually I believe points/character codes would be what the English strings would be match to, by use of the Resource Manager to supply a localized string.

maybe I'm missing what you're meaning though

[Mikemk]

Like, I can tell it to do something, and it figures out how.

For example,
"Order a pizza"
"Would you like Pizza Hut or Hut Pizza" (examples)

[zeitue]

Ah, I have this planned for later, as part of my VUI

although I could just run my old AI on it or the brain.