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		martythemaniak on Dec 7, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Ja... Well, you could use perl6's grammar, which is the closest you can get. Comparing it to python is rather funny: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.1/ref/grammar.txt http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/src/perl6/STD.pm If you do a wc, perl6 is about 12-20 times the size of python (depending if you use lines or chars). It would be funny to see the per6 graph...

chromatic on Dec 7, 2009 [–]

> [Perl 6] is about 12-20 times the size of python....

The Perl 6 grammar also includes comments and is itself written in Perl 6. A metacircular Python grammar would look different from the existing Python grammar.

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