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* Introducing the module CGI, re-exporting a subset of the cgi package. It might complete replace the cgi package in the future. * Introducing the module CGIUtils, containing functions from FastCGIUtils that have nothing to do with fastcgi. Some low level hackery with unsafePerformIO and global variables was left in FastCGIUtils, but it is actually not used, neither for gf -server nor exec/pgf-fcgi.hs.
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 download/index.html for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.)