Writing a formal language parser with Lisp

Question

My company is designing a new domain specific scripting language; I have to implement a parser that translates our brand new programming language into a common scripting lan

Answer 1

There are two ways to parse non-lispy languages in common-lisp.

1) Use readtables. this is the classic way: the lisp reader algorithm is a simple recursive-decent parser already, which supports character-based dispatch. Vacietis does this here

2) Use a parsing library. I can recommend esrap as a good utility for doing packrat parsing, and smug as a decent one for doing monadic parsing. Both are available in quicklisp