# Announcing Dhaka - A parser generator

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-dhaka-a-parser-generator/77613>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 29, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-dhaka-a-parser-generator/77613 "2006-11-29T05:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mushfeq\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mushfeq\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mushfeq_K)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-dhaka-a-parser-generator/77613/1 "2006-11-29T05:50:00Z")

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Hi,

I wanted to introduce people to my project Dhaka  
([http://dhaka.rubyforge.org](http://dhaka.rubyforge.org)).  
The goal is to make a fairly general and flexible parser generator  
that’s  
simple and easy to use and completely in Ruby. All of its core  
functionality  
has been implemented. There’s some initial documentation for it,  
including  
what I hope is a pretty illustrative example.

Please try it, break it and let me know how you did it. If you have  
ideas  
for what features you’d think would be a good fit for it, I’m all ears.

Thanks for reading this announcement.

Mushfeq.

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**Author:** ![Mushfeq\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mushfeq\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mushfeq_K)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-dhaka-a-parser-generator/77613/2 "2006-11-29T08:14:20Z")

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On 11/29/06, Mushfeq K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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What kind of grammars can it generate parsers for? LALR, LR, any  
context free, context-sensitive?

Best regards,

Robert F.

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**Author:** ![Mushfeq\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mushfeq\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mushfeq_K)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-dhaka-a-parser-generator/77613/3 "2006-11-29T08:16:21Z")

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> What kind of grammars can it generate parsers for? LALR, LR, any  
> context free, context-sensitive?

Ok, ok, I didn’t read the intro well enough… 🙂 Sorry, LALR it is.

/RF