[Chicago] October meeting

[Carl Karsten]

David Beazley wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:00 AM, chicago-request at python.org wrote:
>> Anyway, what's the plan for this month?
>>
> 
> If there is interest, I wouldn't mind giving a little talk about PLY  
> (http://www.dabeaz.com/ply) and how one goes about using it to write  
> new programming languages and compilers.     It's kind of a hairy  
> subject, but it would also feature all sorts of crazy Python  
> perversion ;-).
> 
> Otherwise, I'll probably take a pass on the tech cocktail...

For years I have been interested in parsing SQL statements.    Here are some 
notes I have collected http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~SqlParser~VFP

In 1990 something I took a complier class that was mostly about how to use Lex 
and Yacc.  I now have the o'reilly Lex and Yacc book, which even has a chapter 
on parsing SQL, but I am still 'stuck' on how to do whatever it is I want to do. 
  Not knowing the details of my goal is probably one of my problems :)  I am 
trying to create something that is language agnostic, but maybe I should focus 
on getting it to work somewhere.

Carl K