Camperdown Explorations

Camperdown Explorations

This

site

provides

some

demos

and

documentation

for

the

Camperdown

parser,

an

open

source

version

of

the

parser

used

by

in

the

toolchain

it

uses

to

build

its

course

offerings

in

STEM

fields.

The

Camperdown

parser

is

distinguished

by

(a)

fault

tolerance

and

(b)

configurability.

Fault

tolerance

is

needed

in

an

interactive

editing

environment.

Syntax

errors,

handled

gracefully

in

real

time,

are

displayed

in

the

rendered

text

at

the

point

where

they

occur

with

a

reference

to

the

line

in

the

source

text.

Configurability

means

that

the

parser

can

be

used

for

a

wide

variety

of

custom

markup

languages.

This

variety

is

demonstrated

by

the

apps

linked

below.

—

a

markup

language

with

many

features

of

Markdown

but

which

can

be

extended

without

changing

the

language

itelf.

—

a

simplified

resurrection

of

the

old

Mac

Hypercard

app

(1987).

This

was

a

kind

of

web

within

an

app

featuring

text,

links,

images,

and

other

media.

Well

before

the

invention

of

the

world

wide

web.

—

a

novel

markup

language

inspired

by

Lisp.

Code

for

the

parser

and

for

the

demo

apps

is

open

source:

Camperdown parser

Camperedown explorations

Documentation:

Fault Tolerant Parsing in L1

The

Pipeline

button

below

gives

some

information

on

how

the

parser

pipeline

works.

This

demo

site

is

built

with

a

stripped

down

version

of

the

Campdown

app.

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