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The Setup.hs script now queries darcs to create more detailed version info to include in the startup message. Note thought that with distributed version control systems like darcs, the only way to uniquely identify a version is by the set of patches included. Since the patches are not totally ordered, just looking at the last patch is not enough. For official releases, we tag the current set of patches so we can refer to it by name (e.g. RELEASE-3.3.3).
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See doc/gf-developers.html for installation instructions.