Building a Better Dictionary

One of the software projects that I maintain is the PLY parser generator. In a nutshell, PLY is a Python implementation of the classic lex and yacc tools used for writing parsers, compilers, and other related programs. It’s also not the kind of program that tends to change often—to be sure, I’m not aware of any sort of space-race concerning the implementation of LALR(1) parser generators (although perhaps there’s some startup company Lalrly.com just waiting to strike parsing gold).