> Sure, picking up Perl now... but I wish I'd been learning about advanced parsers instead. Fwiw: Perl 5 is no slouch in the parsing department (via CPAN modu

> Sure, picking up Perl now... but I wish I'd been learning about advanced parsers instead. Fwiw: Perl 5 is no slouch in the parsing department (via CPAN modules, including partial backports of some Perl 6 technologies). Perl 6 directly delivers a powerful but relatively easy-to-use parsing environment with its composable grammars and rules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules).