Agreed - thanks Mark! If anyone is able to share the query languages you're using (the language's grammar more than the implementation), I'd be very interested (and grateful).
I'm always struggling to create reports for our non-technical staff which are flexible enough to be useful but don't rely on complicated UIs. I've tried the natural language approach a couple times but haven't come up with anything I'm happy with. - John On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: > I just wanted to post a public "Thank You!" to Mark Engelberg for his > Instaparse library. > > https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse > > We are just starting to use this at World Singles so that we can provide a > "natural language" interface to our search engine, allowing our internal > support folks to create custom queries without needing some complex > cascading drop-down-filled UI to define complex queries. The ability to > provide an English-like DSL for an otherwise very complex part of our > business is a huge benefit! > > I started playing with Instaparse just yesterday morning and we have a > working proof of concept up on QA today - Instaparse is an amazing tool! > > Sean Corfield -- http://clojurebridge.org > > "ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure community by > offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops for women." > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
